| Kyuu said: The argument was that apart from Gran Turismo, Playstation never had a consistently popular franchise until Uncharted 2. Which is relatively true. Gran Turismo was by far Sony's biggest IP until The Last of Us came out. Uncharted was big, but remained a distant second to GT until Uncharted 4. Not many really said that the Sony of old lacked quality. It's just that they weren't popular enough. Spryo and Crash were quite popular but they were neither owned nor developed by Sony, and were only associated with Playstation for a single generation. It was the mid-late PS4 days where Sony evolved to a more mainstream player. PS3's first half was weak due to high prices and bad ports. It had little to do with Sony's output. |
Well you also have to consider that Sony was very new to gaming compared to most other major publishers at the time. Sony Computer Entertainment was literally a startup at the time of the original PlayStation, so it was obviously going to take time to build a stable of hit games and talented developers.
Still, most of Sony's games on the original PlayStation outside GT sold around 1-2 million copies, which was pretty big back then.
And on PlayStation 2, they regularly sold 2-4 million, so there was a gradual increase in popularity of Sony's games.
The PlayStation 3 was the first Gen that Sony's titles sold well enough to carry a console on its own, which was even more true in the PlayStation 4 days.
But this absurd notion that nobody bought first party games on PS1-PS2 or that they weren't popular is honestly BS.
