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Wman1996 on 07 July 2020

Debatable whether it made consoles the standard, but it injected massive new life into gaming. It was the console to standardize CD-ROMs, the DualShock is the foundation of every controller afterward, and the third-party support transformed the industry.



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Mandalore76 on 07 July 2020
hunter_alien said:
Playstation introduced neither the CD-ROM nor the home console, but yes, I do agree it made it standard. The industry was already stalling a bit with Nintendo and Sega, and new blood was needed. And that new blood sold more than twice the combined total of its rivals, so yeah downplaying the influence Sony had on the industry is pure ignorance.

JapaneseGamesLover said:
Standard means market norm, which can be measured by numbers. I post numbers and facts. Isnt PS1 the first home console to reach 100m userbase ? I dont get the NES posts.

KBG29 said:
Sony took console gaming from 60 Million homes, to 160 Million homes. PlayStation grew console gaming to where it is today with PS1 and PS2.

Unfortunately, they have stagnated with PS3 and PS4. However, Microsoft has picked up the slack, with 360 & XBO to keep console gaming relatively stable over the last 15 years.

Hopefully, with PS5 & XBS we will see a return to growth in the console space. The speed of the SSD and I/O in both console should keep them well ahead of off the shelf PCs in practical uses for a few years to come.

If they can continue to push the gaming medium deeper and wider, while also making things like Communication, Social Media, Quality of Life, Shopping, Banking, etc. stupidly accessible, then they might finally be able to punch consoles past that 200M wall, and well beyond.

2nd Gen:  approximately 37 million

3rd Gen:  approximately 85 million

4th Gen:  approximately 101 million

5th Gen:  approximately 147 million

Home console gaming was growing gen over gen before the PlayStation's arrival.  



YanisFromFrance on 07 July 2020

Nintendo and PlayStation are dominating not only PlayStation man , please stop with your spam



Doctor_MG on 07 July 2020
JapaneseGamesLover said:
Standard means market norm, which can be measured by numbers. I post numbers and facts. Isnt PS1 the first home console to reach 100m userbase ? I dont get the NES posts.

Why is 100M the number that we are choosing? It feels arbitrary. NES was the first console to reach 60M. Why can't that be considered? 

The growth of the gaming market can't solely be attributed to Playstations success. There are other factors that must be considered, such as ease of access, price of games (gaming is cheaper now than it was before), and just a general change of attitudes. 



PortisheadBiscuit on 07 July 2020
PAOerfulone said:

No, this thing did.

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Moren on 07 July 2020
JapaneseGamesLover said:
Standard means market norm, which can be measured by numbers. I post numbers and facts. Isnt PS1 the first home console to reach 100m userbase ? I dont get the NES posts.

Did you make this thread solely with the intention to brandish the PS1?



OneTime on 07 July 2020

I don't think that Sony ever intended to enter the hardware side of the games market. The Playstation was a collaboration with Nintendo that didn't work out for corporate reasons. If Sony hadn't ended up with a basically-finished PS1 on their hands, they'd never have sat down and built a console.

In any case, there is no doubt that console gaming started with the Atari 2600, the Nintendo Entertainment system, and SEGA. I could turn your argument around and say that Nintendo is the only "real" games console company left: Sony mostly make TVs and HiFis, Microsoft mostly makes software for work computers...



GoOnKid on 07 July 2020

I don't think so, sorry. The gaming market steadily grew even long before Playstation.



LivingMetal on 07 July 2020

From a content standpoint, the original PlayStation brought a wider variety of titles and genres to a wider audience. If there were one "untapped" major territory left to exploit, it was North America. Yes, Americans have been gaming since PONG. But it was the PlayStation that presented console gaming to an older demographic in contract to the younger audience of the previous console generation.



LivingMetal on 07 July 2020
GoOnKid said:

I don't think so, sorry. The gaming market steadily grew even long before Playstation.

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