You're both going to stop the kiddy like console war crap.

Comments like "kiddy Nintendo games" and "Sony fans really live in their own reality" add nothing to the conversation. It's just meaningless name calling.

I played Amstrad CPC , NES and Sega master System before playstation 1.

3D Graphics leap with playstation was the biggest in history.

This can be understood only for gamers of that period, if someone is younger he doesn't understand because he has 3D graphics for granted.

SNES sold 50 million vs Playstation 100 million, that shows how many new people joined video game community due to 3d Graphics gaming.

Pc ofcourse whas a thing in the 90's but not many people had a gaming pc like they do now.
Console gaming(well mostly ps1) whas waay bigger then pc.

Pc gaming at least for me begun when games likes

Tribes

Quake 3 arena

Unreal tournament

Diablo2 (played diablo 1 on ps1)

Red alert 2 

Came out.

Again for me.

PC sales exploded from 16 million unit sales in 1990 to 98 million sold in 1998 alone.

Yeah, like the internet, Windows 95/98 were kind of a big deal and games like DOOM, Starcraft, etc. were massive blockbusters.

Anyone who just glosses over that in the 90s was clearly a child who doesn't fully understand everything that was going on at the time, like I'm sorry there's no other way to put that. The entire stock market boomed massively because of the PC industry and the rise of the internet happening at the time.

The SNES split it's marketshare with the Sega Genesis, which in tandem sold about 90 million units, so Playstation taking most of the 16-bit third party support and having similar numbers isn't much of a leap. 

N64 was able to carve out a solid no.2 on the strength of the N64 having better 3D graphics and Nintendo having some top level blockbusters like Super Mario 64 (which is pretty much THE game everyone thinks about when talking about 3D revolutionizing anything), GoldenEye 007, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart 64, etc. etc. etc. 

I have immense respect for SNES; I still play SNES games via emulator to this day, but the undisputed winner is PS1.

5 reasons:

1. First console to break the 100M barrier, making consoles something for the general public.

2. The most remarkable game lineup, thanks to strong support from third-party developers.

3. Empowerment of third-party developers, previously held hostage by draconian practices.

4. Introduction of digital discs, which revolutionized the manufacturing and distribution of games.

5. First and only time the "newcomer" dominated established rivals in the market, due to price (games/console) and high quality games.

I agree that at Playstation 2 era PC started to get a portion on gaming with online FPS games and games like Diablo II.

Blizzard became a huge company with pc gaming only.

Personally, the SNES is my #1 system ever, with the NES a very, very close second. So many games I'd consider all-time favorites were on the SNES. I was enthralled with the system when I first saw it. Maybe not to the extent of how I felt when I first saw the NES several years earlier, but still. And that sound chip was just amazing.

But back in the 90s, PlayStation was to me just "that system that Final Fantasy is on now." Teenage me honestly had no interest in the PS1 when it was new. FF7 released exclusively for the system is the only reason I even bothered buying one, and I never owned that many games for it. A big problem I had with it was a broader problem I had with a great many Gen 5 games, namely the fact that the shift from 2D to 3D presented a lot of challenges for the industry. It was all new to everyone, so everyone had to figure out how exactly to make 3D games with good gameplay, including controls. Most didn't do that successfully. Also, I was not as impressed visually with most early 3D games, which often had problems with terrible frame rates, ugly textures, and iffy models. While Gen 5 had some absolute gems, there were so many games that were not only absolute eyesores even when they were new, but they were just plain difficult to enjoy because they had poor controls.

I personally felt this was a bigger problem on the PS1, where developers were essentially locked in to creating controls for 3D games on a gamepad that was basically a modified SNES gamepad, which was designed with 2D games in mind. The N64's controller showed Nintendo was aware that fundamentally new types of gameplay required a rethink of controls, including the need for an analog stick being there by default. Super Mario 64 was a game with solid gameplay, and it's clear that everything about the controller was built around that. The controls were immediately intuitive. I press the stick in a direction, and Mario moves in that direction. The camera was solid for its time. It also had simple and cartoon-like visuals that gelled well with the primitive 3D graphics capability of its parent system. But even then, there were still a lot of N64 games with terrible controls (most of them third-party).

My perception of the PS1 wasn't helped by the fact that I didn't get one until 1998 after getting my first job, at which point I already had spent many hours over the course of almost two years playing N64 games over at a friend's place. I was constantly fumbling with the controls on so many PS1 games. For example, Resident Evil 2 was my intro to the series, and while I toughed it out to the end, I didn't have any interest in further exploring the series because of the clumsy nature of the tank controls (I later got interested in the series with the RE2 remake some 20 years later).

As a matter of fact, because there were so few games in that generation that I really, honestly enjoyed beyond most Nintendo & Rare titles and FF7, I kinda drifted away from gaming towards newer interests around the turn of the century. I still played video games, and Gen 6 also had some great games that I enjoyed (especially Halo CE), but it wasn't until the 360 that I started putting more money into gaming. By that point, the industry had started to standardize controls (left stick moves, right stick looks/moves camera), and the visuals had improved substantially, and the industry had really gotten into the groove of making 3D games. But those early years of the shift to 3D really were that rough for me.

I was there.

PS1 was indeed mind-blowing and awesome, but it didn't pioneer 3D alone.

The Saturn beat it to market and was also 3D-capable. PC had polygonal 3D before PS1 released. Heck, I played Starfox on the SNES in polygonal 3D before the PS1 released. N64 came out shortly afterwards and had more advanced 3D capabilities.

PS1 absolutely deserves credit for playing an important role in the 3D revolution, but it was also just one of multiple pioneers.