PlayStation Earns An Emmy

Appropriate considering the PS1's 10 year anniversary, the PlayStation has been awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Technology and Advanced New Media. Eurogamer reports: 'When the concept for PlayStation was in its infancy in the early 1990s, we had a dream to elevate the quality of computer graphics from a 2D-based environment to a rich, realistic 3D experience,' said uberbigwig Ken Kutaragi. 'At the same time, we intended to bring in a new form of entertainment through the living room in a manner that would allow people all over the world to enjoy the pleasures of interactive entertainment ... Even with this lofty goal in mind, the achievement and market acceptance for PlayStation have exceeded my wildest expectations. We are honoured to be awarded a prestigious Emmy to commemorate the significant role PlayStation played in creating a new computer entertainment world."

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Re:There were actually three gaming awards...

[Brantano]

Hmm, i find it funny since most of the nintendo fanboys like to think of there overlord as the most innovative company to ever grace the earth. But where is there emmy? Where is there award? hehehe..might show them a few things actually. Not saying nintendo isnt great, but this just proves there not as innovative as the fans think.

Re:There were actually three gaming awards...

[AuMatar]

An award given out by a television show proves anything about the video game industry? I don't think so.

Re:Sharing?

[FinestLittleSpace]

"cock"

Meanwhile, 10 years earlier...

[derrickh]

Atari, the makers of I Robot and Hard Drivin, say hello.

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It's only sensible to reward TV ads.

[Hitto]

PSX sold thanks to its marketing. It began the long downfall of videogames thanks to TV ads, MTV ads, and supposedly "cool" games, while they tried to appeal to a "mature" audience. And by "mature", I mean 12-year-olds who thought they'd look badass because they didn't play mario games anymore.

Video games have now turned into something weird. You have people who base their manliness on what console they own. On a *toy*. And they keep swallowing that shit up!

So, yeah, emmy awards for ads. Maybe.

Re:It's only sensible to reward TV ads.

[RogueyWon]

Decent marketing is only one of the many reasons why the PSX sold as well as it did. To be frank, the biggest reason was, as it's always been in the console industry, that they had the games. They had the kit that let third party developers make the games they wanted (compare this with how Nintendo lost Square over the optical drives issue) and they didn't impose much in the way of content restrictions. Games like Wipeout and Ridge Racer were visually stunning and beat anything that had previously been available on anything less than a $1500 gaming PC into the ground. This was a huge factor in bringing a lot of people who wouldn't previously have touched a console into playing games. Then when you got "serious" games, for the more traditional demographic, like Final Fantasy VII appearing as well, the PSX's domination was pretty much assured.

Far from killing gaming, I'd see the Playstation as having pulled it out of a fairly dangerous slump. Other attempts at the time at driving the industry forwards, such as the Saturn and the Jaguar, had been miserable failures. Nintendo were busy trying to play god and driving games towards their homogenised idea of what a game should be. If a successful, technologically advanced platform that was attractive to developers hadn't appeared, the market wouldn't be anything like as healthy as it is today.

As for the snide remark about 12-year-olds who thought thet were cool for not playing Mario - explain to me please how this is any better than the small, but vocal and annoying group of slashdotters who think that just because they *do* still play Mario, they're somehow "real" games whose opinions magically count for more.

Re:It's only sensible to reward TV ads.

[Anonymous Coward]

Because we are better than you guys. Most Nintendo fans have been playing consoles since the NES ressurected the US market(or earlier), before most Sony and MS fans were born. We're the old guard of the oldest still in existance console/game maker. The guys responsible for: The analog stick, rumble, the d-pad, shoulder buttons, the platform most modern franchises started on, the first decent 3D platformer, etc. etc.

20+ years of gaming, quality, nostalgia and innovation... against what?

Sony never seriously won over a huge chunk of the oldschool market, they just grew that market. I certainly didn't buy the PS1 or the PS2 because of Sony's offerings, I bought them mainly because of the support given by Square, Enix, Capcom, Konami, Namco etc. The devs that contributed so much during the NES/SNES days. And I'm just as much of a fan of those companies and their games/franchises as I am of Nintendo's(except that I'm finally burnt on traditional Final Fantasies and Megaman).

Besides, if you can't appreciate say, Mario Kart, forget not being a real gamer, you probably don't have a soul. That's just a fact, replicant.

Re:It's only sensible to reward TV ads.

[KDR_11k]

Okay, now we've got two statements: Nintendo does everything right and everybody else sucks and Nintendo does everything wrong and everyone else is better. Hm, how likely is it that either of these is correct?

Isn't it more likely that Nintendo, just like everyone else, has a number of good and bad games? Double Dash happens to be one of the more mediocre ones, Metroid Prime and Wind Waker are much better games. Neither is flawless but neither is Halo and that was heralded as the second coming. Or how about SSBM? Or is that just a rehash of SSB to you while Burnout Revenge is such a huge step up on Burnout?