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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Without Playstation, would the industry be in another crisis?

I was ready to say "not necessarily" when I saw the title. But as I read, I changed my mind on some aspects. If Sony hadn't stepped in with the PlayStation and kept doing 3rd party consoles for Nintendo, industry would've been different from what it is today.

I agree on most of your points, but I wonder who would've explored the adult demographic. Could be Sega. But would they blame the failure of their products to that demographic they failed to sell to?



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Sega would still exist, I believe they would have filled in Sony's shoes.



I predict that the Wii U will sell a total of 18 million units in its lifetime. 

The NX will be a 900p machine

Sony itself is in crisis. The shape of the industry has nothing to do with Sony being there or not. TBH Sony is probably more irrelevant than random phone manufacturer today


And I agree that you got it wrong    Without the gaming Industry sony would have an even bigger problem



If Sony never entered, Nintendo would be a very different company right now, much more like they were during the SNES.



torok said:
generic-user-1 said:
Sega saturn would have sold alot better. and sega wouldnt have been so broke.
the PS got lucky and the saturn didnt, thats all. sony didnt do much for this succes, they were there when first nintendo fucked it up and than sega fucked it up.
the games that pushed the PS the hardest would have been made anyway.


PS got lucky? Saturn was a terrible hardware project, while N64 was simply "average". And claiming that Sony only managed to do an impact because the competitor fucked up is absurd. With PS1, they outsold their competitor combined by 2:1. With PS2, they did it by 3:1. With PS4, they are almost beating then combined. It takes a lot more than luck to reach these kind of dominant results.

The first sentence is simply obvious. The TuboGrafx-16 would have sold much better to if there wasn't an SNES and Genesis on the market. Saturn was beaten not because of bad luck, but because it was more expensive, weaker, didn't had a Sonic game, complicated to develop for, hard to cut manufacturing costs, etc. Add that to the fact that it was almost a mockering of all the people that bought 32X and Sega CD and you get why Sega went down. As much as I am a Sega fan, I know that they simply didn't do anything right for almost 5 years before quiting the console business.

why did the PS win? Cds and 3rd party support. the saturn had cd and would have had 3rd party support if sony wouldnt have entered the market. sony hadnt any 1st party killer apps, the tech wasnt better or cheaper than the rest. sony was just at the right place at the right time and didnt made stupid mistakes. 

sure the gaming market would be different with sega and nintendo at the top and many others that try to make a good console but it wouldnt be much smaller, and it would be alot stronger and not in a crisis like todays gaming industrie(the 3rd party developer are bleeding a lot of money)



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If sony didn't enter console business themselves, the N64 would run CDs. And MS entering is completely unrelated to PS. It has to do with Sega leaving the business, though, as there are many evidences that the original xbox was developed by sega before they decided to cry uncle.



Who knows. One thing I do know is Sony was the first one to make a system for more than just kids, and I am thankful for it.



Prediction for console Lifetime sales:

Wii:100-120 million, PS3:80-110 million, 360:70-100 million

[Prediction Made 11/5/2009]

3DS: 65m, PSV: 22m, Wii U: 18-22m, PS4: 80-120m, X1: 35-55m

I gauruntee the PS5 comes out after only 5-6 years after the launch of the PS4.

[Prediction Made 6/18/2014]

Neh. Nintendo 64 would have been more successful, and Microsoft would still perform poorly in Japan. With strong third party support, a Nintendo console could very well still be a force to be reckoned with.



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ohh and sony would have went with the nuon if they didnt had PS. with NUON in every DVD player, without competition from the PS2, casual gaming would have grown even more than with the PS2.



The industry would have died without Playstation.