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disolitude on 20 February 2009
Pristine20 said:
Onyxmeth said:

"Tekken owes it’s success to the PlayStation brand"

Isn't it the other way around? I'm pretty sure Sony should be thanking Namco for giving them Tekken and Battle Arena Toshinden instead of going over to the Saturn, where a trifecta of those two plus Virtua Fighter could have slowed Playstation performance immensely in the early days when not much else looked very good and fighters were everything.

It's a two-way street. PS owes some of it's success to tekken as much as tekken owes some of it's success to PS. PS was successful because of a wide variety of 3rd, 2nd and 1st party games. If tekken was out of the mix, it's possible that a few million people would have purchased the saturn (if thats where it went) but I'm pretty sure the numbers won't be significant enough to have altered the outcome of that gen.

In the same vein, if tekken had gone to saturn not PS, it probably won't be as popular as it is today...that's the point of the article

 

hehe, chicken or the egg theory.

Keep in mind, Saturn sold equal to or better than PS1 in Japan despite not having Tekken and Ridge Racer or majority other 3rd party software. (Resident Evil, Batle Arena Toshinden etc) Final Fantasy 7 turned the tide in that region. Had it had games like Ace Combat, Tekken, Ridge Racer on top of Segas classic games, PS1 wold have had a hell of a time at launch and probbaly wouldn't have been as great of a success. But I agree...VF and Daytona would be competition for these games, and they wouldn't have sold as much on the Saturn.

 

 



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Pristine20 on 20 February 2009
CGI-Quality said:
@ pristine

Wow, good post my friend!

 

 Thanks man.

I always find it amusing when people try to give a single series too much credit for the success of the PS brand. There's a reason PS doesn't have a mascot.



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

Pristine20 on 20 February 2009
disolitude said:
Pristine20 said:
Onyxmeth said:

"Tekken owes it’s success to the PlayStation brand"

Isn't it the other way around? I'm pretty sure Sony should be thanking Namco for giving them Tekken and Battle Arena Toshinden instead of going over to the Saturn, where a trifecta of those two plus Virtua Fighter could have slowed Playstation performance immensely in the early days when not much else looked very good and fighters were everything.

It's a two-way street. PS owes some of it's success to tekken as much as tekken owes some of it's success to PS. PS was successful because of a wide variety of 3rd, 2nd and 1st party games. If tekken was out of the mix, it's possible that a few million people would have purchased the saturn (if thats where it went) but I'm pretty sure the numbers won't be significant enough to have altered the outcome of that gen.

In the same vein, if tekken had gone to saturn not PS, it probably won't be as popular as it is today...that's the point of the article

 

hehe, chicken or the egg theory.

Keep in mind, Saturn sold equal to or better than PS1 in Japan despite not having Tekken and Ridge Racer or majority other 3rd party software. (Resident Evil, Batle Arena Toshinden etc) Final Fantasy 7 turned the tide in that region. Had it had games like Ace Combat, Tekken, Ridge Racer on top of Segas classic games, PS1 wold have had a hell of a time at launch and probbaly wouldn't have been as great of a success. But I agree...VF and Daytona would be competition for these games, and they wouldn't have sold as much on the Saturn.

 

 

But you see, you mentioned many other series not just tekken. That's the key to PS success. M$ mistake last gen was this lack of a popular variety. Halo is a very good franchise but you can only get so far on the back of one series. The article is only about tekken. tekken by itself wouldn't have done much to alter the gen if it went to saturn. i could argue that it might have faded into obscurity instead.

 

 



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler