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PlayStation a bigger invention than PC?

Yeah 80 30.42%
 
No PS2 was bigger! 30 11.41%
 
SNES ftw! 152 57.79%
 
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Jazz2K said:
Lol... the most important innovation in the world is PC of course. Almost nothing is made without a PC since the last 30 years.


I disagree (although I know what you mean): the most important invention is writing followed by the invention of paper. And in the modern world it's electricity. No win for PC or PS.

But if you look at the survey, the Internet won. As I first learned about the internet, it was at the university. I accessed the Internet over a Terminal that was connected to a big server. If at that time someone had made the survey, nobody would have mentioned internet, as nopbody even knowed about that thing. Internet started to became popular as it was possible to access it at home - with a PC. You needed a PC to access Internet. Sure, today are more internet-able devices like Tablets or Smartphones. But these only could grow with an already existant internet. Would you pay multiple hundred dollars to buy a phone that can execute programs (smartphones) wihtout internet. Even Appstores would be impossible without the internet. So the internet had to grow with the PC, that is the base for todays success of smartphones.



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Turkish said:
I do agree with the statement, PS1 really must have changed the world if it ranks higher than the pc, without the PS 17 years ago our would have looked much different now.


No, gaming-consoles already existed. Sony brought gaming-consoles to europe, that's all. Nintendo and Sega would have with time also build up there sales-channels in europe.



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IEATBABIES said:

This is most likely a flamebait post by the op, but Just because the PC has x amount of games, mods and graphical power, doesn't mean all of them will sell, which clearly shows. Records show 90% of gamers are on consoles and use handhelds. That's where 90% of the market is. Just look where most games sell on.


I would agree, that more gamers are on console-platforms than on PC (it's a feeling, not knowledge), but 90% is ridiculous. Have you data to back this claim?



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Turkish said:
I just wonder what the intentions of Sony are, are they trying to compete with the PC? Originally you could install Linux on the PS3, you can hook up keyboard and printer to your PS3 too.


Are you serious? Sony produces PCs.



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IIIIITHE1IIIII said:

OT: I just lost a lot of respect for the British people. Nerds/geeks or not, ranking any gaming platform above PC is borderline retarded.

To save the reputation of the british people: that poll was over users of a lifestyle-website.



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Alby_da_Wolf said:

Little known fact: the first x86 PC was designed by IBM using a PlayStation brought back from the future by John Titor to exchange it for a precious IBM 5100.


Ah, that makes sense.



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IEATBABIES said:

This is most likely a flamebait post by the op, but Just because the PC has x amount of games, mods and graphical power, doesn't mean all of them will sell, which clearly shows. Records show 90% of gamers are on consoles and use handhelds. That's where 90% of the market is. Just look where most games sell on.


I would agree, that more gamers are on console-platforms than on PC (it's a feeling, not knowledge), but 90% is ridiculous. Have you data to back this claim?


I have real data

As you can see PC (digital+boxed+MMO+Browser bassed games) gets far more play time than consoles which is only arround ~20% of time spent gaming.

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Riku148 said:

ofcourse there would be playstation and internet and so on because there would be linux or mac running as biggest os..........


You should check what a PC actually is. And no, it's not OS based or Windows driven. God..