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PS1 came out after the Saturn died, with N64 a year away (longer if you include the SLOW start for games), so if you wanted a console, PS was your only choice. As it happened, lots of people did want consoles, so sales, and consequently game develpers, went sony's way.
This time things are a little tougher in the market. Dreamcast are already established, where saturn never was, to provide competition, and this time nintendo's offering has more promise, publicity, potential, and people keeping hold of their money for it's release.
What does this mean for sony? For the first time in their short gaming lives, sony will be releasing into a market with significant competition. Also, they have an overpriced console receiving a bad press, both for technical reasons and that it's equivalent to £100 more expensive here than America.
Whatever your bias, you can't deny the ride will be a rough one for sony. There is a very real possibility that PS2 will flop like saturn, and even if not, there will be some lessons about competetive games marketing for sony that they couldn't learn selling tv's and hi-fi's.
Can they come through? Sega had the reputation, experience and finances when they fell.
Nintendo had Rare and Pokemon to pick them up.
I think it's going to come down to whether or not sony central will be willing to pour money and resources into the games sector to pick themselves up to try again. Considering the profit available in gaming, I think that if PS2 does die, it won't be the last we hear of audio/visual giants out of water.
This time things are a little tougher in the market. Dreamcast are already established, where saturn never was, to provide competition, and this time nintendo's offering has more promise, publicity, potential, and people keeping hold of their money for it's release.
What does this mean for sony? For the first time in their short gaming lives, sony will be releasing into a market with significant competition. Also, they have an overpriced console receiving a bad press, both for technical reasons and that it's equivalent to £100 more expensive here than America.
Whatever your bias, you can't deny the ride will be a rough one for sony. There is a very real possibility that PS2 will flop like saturn, and even if not, there will be some lessons about competetive games marketing for sony that they couldn't learn selling tv's and hi-fi's.
Can they come through? Sega had the reputation, experience and finances when they fell.
Nintendo had Rare and Pokemon to pick them up.
I think it's going to come down to whether or not sony central will be willing to pour money and resources into the games sector to pick themselves up to try again. Considering the profit available in gaming, I think that if PS2 does die, it won't be the last we hear of audio/visual giants out of water.
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PS1 came out after the Saturn died, with N64 a year away (longer if you include the SLOW start for games), so if you wanted a console, PS was your only choice. As it happened, lots of people did want consoles, so sales, and consequently game develpers, went sony's way.
This time things are a little tougher in the market. Dreamcast are already established, where saturn never was, to provide competition, and this time nintendo's offering has more promise, publicity, potential, and people keeping hold of their money for it's release.
What does this mean for sony? For the first time in their short gaming lives, sony will be releasing into a market with significant competition. Also, they have an overpriced console receiving a bad press, both for technical reasons and that it's equivalent to £100 more expensive here than America.
Whatever your bias, you can't deny the ride will be a rough one for sony. There is a very real possibility that PS2 will flop like saturn, and even if not, there will be some lessons about competetive games marketing for sony that they couldn't learn selling tv's and hi-fi's.
Can they come through? Sega had the reputation, experience and finances when they fell.
Nintendo had Rare and Pokemon to pick them up.
I think it's going to come down to whether or not sony central will be willing to pour money and resources into the games sector to pick themselves up to try again. Considering the profit available in gaming, I think that if PS2 does die, it won't be the last we hear of audio/visual giants out of water.
This time things are a little tougher in the market. Dreamcast are already established, where saturn never was, to provide competition, and this time nintendo's offering has more promise, publicity, potential, and people keeping hold of their money for it's release.
What does this mean for sony? For the first time in their short gaming lives, sony will be releasing into a market with significant competition. Also, they have an overpriced console receiving a bad press, both for technical reasons and that it's equivalent to £100 more expensive here than America.
Whatever your bias, you can't deny the ride will be a rough one for sony. There is a very real possibility that PS2 will flop like saturn, and even if not, there will be some lessons about competetive games marketing for sony that they couldn't learn selling tv's and hi-fi's.
Can they come through? Sega had the reputation, experience and finances when they fell.
Nintendo had Rare and Pokemon to pick them up.
I think it's going to come down to whether or not sony central will be willing to pour money and resources into the games sector to pick themselves up to try again. Considering the profit available in gaming, I think that if PS2 does die, it won't be the last we hear of audio/visual giants out of water.