| curl-6 said: For my own personal tastes, Sony's own output was weak prior to the PS3. I did love stuff like Crash/Spyro on PS1 but those weren't actually developed by Sony themselves, while there was not much on the PS2 that appealed to me. Those consoles were carried hard by third parties. |
I view it as PS1 and PS2 as so dominant largely due to emerging tech, third-party dominance and powerful branding. I feel like PS2 is the PlayStation console that needed first-party games the least because of how massive PS1 was. It beat GameCube and Xbox to market, had the legacy/backwards compatibility, and a DVD player.
PlayStation has stayed in the game from those legacies but also their first-party offerings becoming more popular. PS4 might've finished around Wii-PS1 (or even a little below) without its popular first-party games.
Lifetime Sales Predictions
Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)
PS5: 122 million (was 105 million, then 115 million) Xbox Series X/S: 38 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million. then 40 million)
Switch 2: 120 million (was 116 million)
PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)
3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)
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