NES and it's not even close really. The entire modern game market basically traces back to there.
PS1 is overrated, it just took the 3rd party support that Nintendo already had for 10 years ... where do you think Final Fantasy and Metal Gear and Dragon Quest and Castlevania got popular? Capcom was already one of the most famous devs because of the NES and SNES, it's not like they just popped out of the ground with Resident Evil. Sega was already marketing towards older audiences/teenagers too, so the whole "Sony started marketing at non-kids!" thing is bunk too, Sega was doing that a generation prior already.
Sony just got fortunate that Nintendo made an extremely stupid decision to use cartridges and the double whammy of Sega basically killing itself, leaving the PS1 with a wide open path. If the N64 used CD-ROM, I doubt the Playstation wins that generation at all, they'd have been no.2 and a distant no.2 at that. Even the PS1 OG controller design is basically a rip off of the Super NES controller and then they had to see Nintendo use analog + rumble on the N64 to copy that as well. They just copied a lot of the Super NES and added in more Sega style marketing (right down to their Sonic knock off of Crash Bandicoot).
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