King of the 90s: SNES vs PS1

[JackHandy]

angrypoolman said:

JackHandy said:

PS1's contribution was creating an entirely new market: the adult market. Before, gaming was considered a child/teenage pastime. Adults that gamed were looked down upon by other adults. A grown man in his late twenties in the US could not go to a dinner party and when asked what he liked to do in his spare time, say that he was a gamer. He would be ridiculed and considered immature and ostracized. The PS1 changed all that. It gave birth to the idea that gaming was like every other form of entertainment. It brought the industry out of the dark, nerdy bedrooms, day-care centers and elementary-school playgrounds and into mainstream (adult) society. It gave gaming respect. It birthed its legitimacy. And that's why I would rank it the console of the 90's. Without hesitation.

The snes gave birth to super mario world and a link to the past

Yes, it certainly did. And as great as those games are, they were evolutions of massively popular franchises that already existed on the NES. Further more, neither did anything to expand the demographic of gaming as a whole. The PS1 did that. The SNES did not.