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Sony entered the console market in 1994,they were very much like Microsoft is today,New at the games market.But did that stop them from global domination of the gaming industry,hell no.When Nintendo and Sega steped up to knock them down,SONY stood strong and produced a console worthy of their great reputation as a technilogical company manufacturing Televisions and other appliances.Little did they know the Playstation would prove so popular with mainstream gamers. It offered arcade thrills not to mention a range of top quality games,Tekken and the Ridge Racer franchise was born come PSX launch.So SONY creeped in there before Nintendo and produced a console that gamers loved not to mention the general population.It offered value for money and gamers were geeks no more,they were cool people who where considered up to date.
It almost became a craze like pokemon but it has been less drastic in its growth.Pokemon grew in weeks to a massive audience of young kids.But Sony sold loads over the years and dominated the market after two years in the industry.No matter who you side with,whether its Sega,Nintendo or Microsoft,the biggest player in the gaming industry is SONY.
This is deserved by all means.It produce some truly magnificant games,some declaring themselves as the best ever.Such as Metal Gear Solid which sold millions world wide.The racing genre was given a simulation game unlike the Outruns of this world,it was called Gran Turismo and revolusionised the word "Realistic".Fight fans around the world rejoiced when they could get their hands on the Tekken Triology,which offered fighting thrills with some increadible graphics.And in between these titles we had the lovely Ms Croft who was drooled on by thousands teenagers as they watched her bottom wiggle after gunning down a bad girl.Jaws hit the floor.Now look how successful she is,a film out in a matter of weeks.And never has a sport fan thought he was on a football field till Sony steeped up and produced games like FIFA and ISS,which gave soccer fanatics that chance to play as their favourite teams.And now we wonder why SONY has sold the PSX's around the globe.The games were great.
After a good 4 years in the game SONY knew they had the market,thanks to a mass advertising scheme which showed people what they were missing.Soon every 1 house out of 2 had a little grey console sitting next the T.V,causing a gaming revolution.Everyone was dedicated to SONY.Buying these cheap titles for a tenner making kids spend there pocket money on games.Comic book heroes no longer exsist in the eyes of many,they now have Solid Snake and Lara,who needs Wolverine and Superman.The public was won over and the name SONY represented the best gaming experience anyone could have.
And to this day we still see the playstation selling by the millions and if you take a gander at the charts you will see they are mainly dominated by SONY.After 6 years,Sony wanted a change and decided to take the gaming public to another level in gaming quality.They introduced the Playstaion 2 which represented next generation gaming in front of your T.V,and by heck it worked,they advertised so much, they drilled the thought into the publics head that SONY were again making the best in electronic entertainment.But was this the case or were they slighty taking advantage of their name...SONY.I believe they were.The games line up was unoriginal and quite boring,the same old names were churned out and the public imediately swarmed to the shops in the millions to be the envy of the neighbourhood.TUT TUT,many regretted it because they associated SONY with the best.But after a dismal launch SONY started to buck up there Ideas and created some truly great games and to this day they are still doing so,and guess what,the public are still buying them.
Games such as Unreal Tournament and Zone of the Enders showed the public that there was games that would not only revolutionise there gaming expereince but change peoples views on gaming. They took sports to another level creating realistic football sims not to mention the excellent Tiger Woods Golf which I love.The future is bright as well,with the release of the Bouncer and Red Faction this week (22/06) will certainly help the image of the PS2.And to mention what is possible the best game ever,Metal Gear Solid 2 making an appearence in the distant future.The old classics come back such as Gran Turismo 3 and Final Fantasy 10/11.So even though the presence of Both Microsoft and Nintendo's consoles,we will see the PS2 to continue to shine thanks to name.........SONY.
People who were there with SONY from day one will never go to Microsoft or Nintendo because they know SONY will never go the way of SEGA,They have money and they are reliable,Not to mention a gaming community that believes there is only one console out there at the momment.SONY=TRUST,and safety.
It almost became a craze like pokemon but it has been less drastic in its growth.Pokemon grew in weeks to a massive audience of young kids.But Sony sold loads over the years and dominated the market after two years in the industry.No matter who you side with,whether its Sega,Nintendo or Microsoft,the biggest player in the gaming industry is SONY.
This is deserved by all means.It produce some truly magnificant games,some declaring themselves as the best ever.Such as Metal Gear Solid which sold millions world wide.The racing genre was given a simulation game unlike the Outruns of this world,it was called Gran Turismo and revolusionised the word "Realistic".Fight fans around the world rejoiced when they could get their hands on the Tekken Triology,which offered fighting thrills with some increadible graphics.And in between these titles we had the lovely Ms Croft who was drooled on by thousands teenagers as they watched her bottom wiggle after gunning down a bad girl.Jaws hit the floor.Now look how successful she is,a film out in a matter of weeks.And never has a sport fan thought he was on a football field till Sony steeped up and produced games like FIFA and ISS,which gave soccer fanatics that chance to play as their favourite teams.And now we wonder why SONY has sold the PSX's around the globe.The games were great.
After a good 4 years in the game SONY knew they had the market,thanks to a mass advertising scheme which showed people what they were missing.Soon every 1 house out of 2 had a little grey console sitting next the T.V,causing a gaming revolution.Everyone was dedicated to SONY.Buying these cheap titles for a tenner making kids spend there pocket money on games.Comic book heroes no longer exsist in the eyes of many,they now have Solid Snake and Lara,who needs Wolverine and Superman.The public was won over and the name SONY represented the best gaming experience anyone could have.
And to this day we still see the playstation selling by the millions and if you take a gander at the charts you will see they are mainly dominated by SONY.After 6 years,Sony wanted a change and decided to take the gaming public to another level in gaming quality.They introduced the Playstaion 2 which represented next generation gaming in front of your T.V,and by heck it worked,they advertised so much, they drilled the thought into the publics head that SONY were again making the best in electronic entertainment.But was this the case or were they slighty taking advantage of their name...SONY.I believe they were.The games line up was unoriginal and quite boring,the same old names were churned out and the public imediately swarmed to the shops in the millions to be the envy of the neighbourhood.TUT TUT,many regretted it because they associated SONY with the best.But after a dismal launch SONY started to buck up there Ideas and created some truly great games and to this day they are still doing so,and guess what,the public are still buying them.
Games such as Unreal Tournament and Zone of the Enders showed the public that there was games that would not only revolutionise there gaming expereince but change peoples views on gaming. They took sports to another level creating realistic football sims not to mention the excellent Tiger Woods Golf which I love.The future is bright as well,with the release of the Bouncer and Red Faction this week (22/06) will certainly help the image of the PS2.And to mention what is possible the best game ever,Metal Gear Solid 2 making an appearence in the distant future.The old classics come back such as Gran Turismo 3 and Final Fantasy 10/11.So even though the presence of Both Microsoft and Nintendo's consoles,we will see the PS2 to continue to shine thanks to name.........SONY.
People who were there with SONY from day one will never go to Microsoft or Nintendo because they know SONY will never go the way of SEGA,They have money and they are reliable,Not to mention a gaming community that believes there is only one console out there at the momment.SONY=TRUST,and safety.
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Ahh someone agrres with me!! That makes a change! I think that in time there will be some good PS2 games that do make full use of the PS2 hard ware. They will arrive in 2003 earliest. The PS2 from what developers have said is difficult to program for and that is not a good thing. The GC will get conversions of good X-box and PS2 and PC games because it is so easy to program for. The X-box is not to bad either from what I have heard when it comes to developing for. The PS2 however is just to different and difficult, it will take to long to convert games and they will not make enough money to make it worthwhile.
Biggles
Biggles
The PS2 has such a stupidly large bus it doesn't need a large cache/VRAM. This is the way forward in games. Sony have a made a good decision as it forces developers to follow this route. The PS2 isn't hard to code for, it's just different.
The article does compare the PS2 to a PC but at the end he says he feels un impressed with the X-Box. The X-Box uses a standered Pentium 3 which is used in normal PCs. PS2 has a processor desgined to run 3D games well. This is the main advantage of PS2.
Is the IBM CPU that is in the GC a processor like the Emotion Engine or is it a run of the mill PC processor?
Is the IBM CPU that is in the GC a processor like the Emotion Engine or is it a run of the mill PC processor?
adrian wrote:
> Bonus he put a link to a site that had lots of information about why
> the PS2 is so powerfull that even the X-Box could find it hard to
> compete against.
Nope. It said that the console has been designed for 3D rather than PC word processors.
I think that Nintendo and Microsoft have used similar techniques in their own consoles and besides, even with this game efficient structure, it's so difficult to use that only 1 or 2 companies will manage to get the most out of it.
So the PS2 will get one or two companies that produce games nearly as good as the ones on the Xbox and the GC?
That won't help things.
> Bonus he put a link to a site that had lots of information about why
> the PS2 is so powerfull that even the X-Box could find it hard to
> compete against.
Nope. It said that the console has been designed for 3D rather than PC word processors.
I think that Nintendo and Microsoft have used similar techniques in their own consoles and besides, even with this game efficient structure, it's so difficult to use that only 1 or 2 companies will manage to get the most out of it.
So the PS2 will get one or two companies that produce games nearly as good as the ones on the Xbox and the GC?
That won't help things.
Sony is the only thing my dad even goes near. But for good prices. PLUS!! If you own a Sony card (visa) you get points for every Sony thing you buy, and can then swap them for cool Sony things (though to get something decent, you have you spend a few hundred thousand pounds to acumilate the points...Doh!
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SonicRav wrote:
BUT NOW... Sony have produced a rushed console that is very hard to program for... gtg... continued
It may be hard to start with but once they get to grips with it they can start to use all of its features. On another post I think it could have been Bonus he put a link to a site that had lots of information about why the PS2 is so powerfull that even the X-Box could find it hard to compete against.
Also I have heard from the PS2 forum that the new game Jax and Dexter doesnt have any in game loading times thanks to its pipelining system.
BUT NOW... Sony have produced a rushed console that is very hard to program for... gtg... continued
It may be hard to start with but once they get to grips with it they can start to use all of its features. On another post I think it could have been Bonus he put a link to a site that had lots of information about why the PS2 is so powerfull that even the X-Box could find it hard to compete against.
Also I have heard from the PS2 forum that the new game Jax and Dexter doesnt have any in game loading times thanks to its pipelining system.
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