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PlayStation is 10 years Old Today
pluke writes "ComputerandVideoGames.com reports that today is the 10 year anniversary of the PlayStation launch in Japan. Facing stiff competition from the already entrenched Sega Saturn it went on to conquer the market and define the modern games industry. Happy Birthday old boy, though I must confess was always a Saturn man." Sniff...so many memories.
"People say Nintendo's biggest mistake was Virtual Boy. I say it was dropping this project allowing Sony to get into and dominate the console market."
Sony didn't need Nintendo's CD-ROM to do this. It's not like Nintendo showed them how to make a console. The Playstation was coming one way or another. Either it would have gone out as the SNES CD (thus dilluting Nintendo's brand. The reason the project broke down was that Sony wanted to have its name plastered all over it) or as a stand alone unit. Either way, Sony wins, Nintendo doesn't make as much money. (Nintendo is far from being dead despite being in 2nd/3rd place.)
Nintendo's biggest mistake is still the Virtual Boy.
"Derp de derp."
Go take a look at history of consoles in '90's. Sony NEVER had any intention of releasing a stand alone console. They never even thought about going into the console market until Nintendo dropped that project.
If Nintendo doesn't drop that project, perhaps that unit as an SNES bombs and Sony never thinks twice about consoles.
To say that Sony would be even a player in the conole market if Nintendo didn't drop that project is pure speculation.
in my humble opinion, PS1 is the greatest consol that has ever existed yet. I own an xbox, ps2 and gamecube and while they are quite good and have impressive abilities wich outstrip the ps1 however, there is just something special about the ps1 and the line up of games that it had.
Just a quick review, from the top of my head...
Twisted metal
Castlevania SYmphony of the Night (best game ever, i think)
Tony hawk series
FF VII
metal gear solid
tekken 3
and the list goes on and on...
I could go on forever, PS1 truly was the greatest of the consols in the golden age of the consol.
>A Pentium 100MHz was pretty good in software
>rendering, and if you throw in a 3Dfx card that
>came out about a year later...It's no contest. When
>I saw my friends raving over a PSX FPS, and the
>sports games, I went back to playing my GLQuake,
>and NHL 96 at 640x480.
That kind of PC costed over $2500 then IIRC.