What went so right?

It was much easier (and cost effective) to develop disc-based games for the Playstation than it was to cram games onto cartridges for the Nintendo 64. And by this time, Nintendo had spent the last decade throwing their weight around, dictating terms to third party developers and publishers. The fifth gen was when that behavior started to bite Nintendo in the ass and their third party support began to wane.

Lack of actual competition. Atari and other consoles were dead. Sega had absolutely no staying power. Nintendo was Sony's real threat at the time.

PS came out about a year and a half earlier than 64, so it had the first-person advantage. PS also had the much better CD format that Nintendo 64 adamantly refused to incorporate, as they went with some shitty cartridge system instead, which resulted in many third-party developers abandoning Nintendo for Sony.

Even to this day, Sony dominates Nintendo in the video game market.

actual. absolutely. real. much. adamantly. shitty.

Too many adjectives.

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Great games and a good controller.

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Am I the only person firmly in the PS1>PS2 camp?

those demo discs. I didnt even play games because as a kid I didn't have patience so all I would play were the demos.

Well once they not only copied Nintendo, realized two analog sticks were better than one and as such perfecting the basic controller layout for 3D games and pretty and as such pretty much set the standard for every controller going forward for the next two decades.

This was pretty much the opposite of the way things usually went for Sony. Historically with things like Beta vs VHS, it was Sony who was coming up with the crazy technical advancements and competitors like JVC who would copy Sony and then improve on whatever Sony did. Basically it was Sony taking a page out of their competitor's handbook and it working like a fucking charm.

Probably, if we're going by library PS2 is easily the best console ever made.

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Remember me, Yea Forums? We had so much fun together.

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that vice city machine?

No accounting for taste it seems, you must have had a pretty pathetic 2000-2008. I don't even think Vice City would rank in my top 50 PS2 games.

It was easier to develop on PS full stop (kind of how Switch is very easy to develop for). Compared with the complicated architecture of Saturn.

I never got this to work.

Literally these. With demo discs not only you found out cool games but some of them had infinite replayablity even in demo mode and piracy somehow was the highlight of the console here for example, you could have your console chipped from the same store you bought it (but not from the big retail ones of course) and if you lacked a computer and/or internet access you could buy pirate copies 90% off the original price of a game, you could buy any good game for so much less it was great

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based retard heading us towards an idiocracy

I used you to pirate so many games.

Ahh, what a time to be alive, blank CDs were cheap and easy to find, ISOs fresh off usenet right at your fingertips, blazing fast 750kb DSL connection so games download in just a couple hours.

Do the old paperclip trick and swap a disc and you were good to play anything including games outside your region. Man it was fun being the only kid around playing DBZ games on the PS1.

this bought a ps1 in like 2001 with hundreds of pirated games it was great

The intro logo theme. Hearing that as a kid made me feel like it was so futuristic and mysterious. I'd hear it every time my brother and his friend would boot it up to play Xcom. That intro sound plus the creepy xcom atmosphere was a cool combo.

I tried atleast a hundred games or more thanks to Demo Discs but I only ha ver ever owned less than 20 ps1 games so yeah I remember demo Discs quite fondly, I agree with you

My best friend was the kid in school that actually sold em games. We live in a shithole so he wouldn't get shit for it. I remember he had like 300 fucking games and even bought black discs to see if they would somehow get around the copy protection.

The FF series went absolutely right. And PE, Dino Crisis, not to mention Crash Bandicoot, Pokemon Red & Blue, NieR Automata and Resident Evil 1-3. I miss the good old days when games were good for the gameplay. And the PS1 console definitely succeeded with the listed games.

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I never even tried it back then desu desu

That's even more sad. You have my pity user.

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