"[Playstation] arrived in Europe that would later revolutionise gaming"

[Kurtle Squad]

What the hell?! I don't get how it was revolutionary!!!
Because it was the 1st to successfully use Discs?!

Anyway, here's the Link:

http://uk.videogames.games.yahoo.com/specials/playstationanniversary/index.html

How far do you think it was 'revolutionary' etc etc?

[dukkadukka]

because it introduced gaming to the mainstream, playstation is the biggest thing that ever happened to gaming.

[Haver]

It changed and extended the gamer demographic in a way that Nintendo ever could.

(And that remote-style controller thing, too.)

[Smalldude76]

The playstation made gaming ultimately popular - the thing to get. It also brought on a new level of fanboyism. I don't think it was revolutionary to gaming, but the original did as much good as bad. Now they're just cocky assholes.

[Cheapshot]

What idiot said it first introduced discs?!

[Aimless]

The playstation made gaming ultimately popular - the thing to get. It also brought on a new level of fanboyism. I don't think it was revolutionary to gaming, but the original did as much good as bad. Now they're just cocky assholes.
Clearly you weren't around during the Sega/Nintendo wars.

What idiot said it first introduced discs?!
No one.

That articles a bit rough around the edges. I certainly don't remember the EyeToy or Singstar series being released on the PSOne.

[Smalldude76]

Clearly you weren't around during the Sega/Nintendo wars.


Wasn't ever allowed games. Had an old NES in the N64 era. Heard that the Ninty/Sega wars wasn't quite as bad as the current ones though, but I know that the fanboyism is quite different apart from the flaming (now supposedly in far more excess).

[dazzybee]

It wasnt the biggest thing to happen to gaming!! Happened IN gaming yes, but not TO gaming. The NES clearly was!! Just because Titanic is the biggest film ever you wouldnt say it held any real importance to the industry and the film world - other than being a fave on film quizes!!

The Playstation didnt revolutionise anything - it changed the gaming world in a pretty big way, but it didnt revolutioise it, but I suppose it all depends on ones definition on 'revolutionise'.

[Aimless]

Wasn't ever allowed games. Had an old NES in the N64 era. Heard that the Ninty/Sega wars wasn't quite as bad as the current ones though, but I know that the fanboyism is quite different apart from the flaming (now supposedly in far more excess).
I'd chalk that up to the proliferation of the internet rather than that of the PlayStation brand. The information super-highway, haven of bigotry.

[harribo]

Heres a better question why do I keep seeing a slogon saying that the PSP is a revolutionary handheld device. Every feature except discs have been on other handhelds.

[Domstercool]

Kinda crazy that it has been 10 years since the Playstation brand hit our shores. It really doesn't feel like that.

[Domstercool]

The Saturn was actually made with 2D gaming in mind. I remember reading a big article about the Saturn and the PSX and what they were good at.

"Sega had designed their machine to concentrate on 2D sprite graphics, and much of its 3D polygon handling abilities were allegedly 'tacked on' late in its development cycle."

[Android18a]

Indeed. 'Tis a shame that 3D was accepted so rapidly, I think. Early 3D games were poor and clearly needed more time, but they were rushed to market. Saturn was a 3rd generation 2D machine and deserved a lot more recognition than it got.

[dukkadukka]

It wasnt the biggest thing to happen to gaming!! Happened IN gaming yes, but not TO gaming. The NES clearly was!! Just because Titanic is the biggest film ever you wouldnt say it held any real importance to the industry and the film world - other than being a fave on film quizes!!

The Playstation didnt revolutionise anything - it changed the gaming world in a pretty big way, but it didnt revolutioise it, but I suppose it all depends on ones definition on 'revolutionise'.
the titanic analogy isn't really appropriate, the film indsutry has been established in the mainstream for decades, only since playstation has been around has gaming becoming an accepted hobby and appreciated as an art form.

[dazzybee]

Hmmm, appreciated as an art form!?! I think it is now as much as it ever was. If you mean 'appreciated' by the masses then who cares what they think really? All sony have done is make gaming popular, which I think has had a more neagtive effect on gaming than a postive one. And I think the analgy is fine, why does it matter that one is newer than the other!?

[Kurtle Squad]

What idiot said it first introduced discs?!

To use them successfully!!

[Cheapshot]

To use them successfully!!

Define what you mean by successfully, Sega CD was a relatively successfull CD player also. :indeed:

[Kurtle Squad]

The Sega CD was naff other than Sonic CD!!

[gorrit]

IMO, it didn't revolutionize gaming, but it brought it to a bigger audience, which is a feat in itself, but it's not as it was a revolution.

[Domstercool]

revolutionary dictionary meaning. = Marked by or resulting in radical change.

Surely PSX "radically" changed the video games industry. I'd say it did. Snes or Mega Drive and even the Saturn didn't make as much impact as the PSX did on the industry. The power of Sony and it's marketing basically changed the quiet life of gaming into a big megabuck business it is today.

[Kurtle Squad]

I guess you're right. But it didn't revolutionise gaming itself. Which is what I perceive as revolutionary.

[Cheapshot]

Hmmm I'd say bringing gaming to the masses is pretty revolutionary I think.

[Bowser57]

Come on kids, just say you hate Sony if that's what you're getting at.

[dazzybee]

How is bringing gaming to the masses revolutionary!?! It just isn't. It makes the word so weak, when it shouldnt be, when something is revoltionary it is should have so much weight and impact, not "It makes something really popular."

[Domstercool]

Look in the dictionary to the meaning of word revolutionary, then see why.

[Kurtle Squad]

Shhhhh!!!
Dictionaries suck and you know it :heh:

[dazzybee]

Dictionarty definition get revised all the time as they can be deemed out of date. I don't care what the dictionary says to be honest, and its pretty vague anyway

rev·o·lu·tion·ar·y ( P ) Pronunciation Key (rv-lsh-nr)
adj.

often Revolutionary Relating to or being a revolution: revolutionary war; a museum of the Revolutionary era.
Bringing about or supporting a political or social revolution: revolutionary pamphlets.
Marked by or resulting in radical change: a revolutionary discovery.

n. pl. rev·o·lu·tion·ar·ies
A militant in the struggle for revolution.
A supporter of revolutionary principles.


You see, all the examples and I read into it an 'active' goal to be revolutionary - Sony wasnt trying to be revolutionary, by chance it became very popular, but they weren't trying to start a gaming revolution, they didnt know they would bring gaming to the masses the way they did!!

And also, its pretty subjective as I wouldnt say its 'radically' changed, its changed a lot but radically!?! Not even close - making something popular hasnt changed the way we play games at all, things havent changed really since the nes - more people play and theres more shit out there, but it hasnt changed that much, the only way it has changed is with the analogue stick!! And even then it was more of a 'natural' evolution of gaming.

The only real revolution could possible be Nintendo's controller - which isnt a natural evolution of gaming, and could 'radically' change the we we play games and the actual games develoeprs create!!

[Domstercool]

It radically changed the way the industry is today. They for it is revolutionary. There's no point trying to change to meaning of the word.

"revolutionary dictionary meaning. = Marked by or resulting in radical change."

[dazzybee]

I don't think it has radically changed, what has changed about it - things have become bigger, better and mroe expensive but it hasnt really changed.

I mean, whats the difference between Fifa 2006 than Fifa 94 on the megadrive!

How has Sony changed the any of the games we see in the industry other than bigger bidgets (which is arguable to thank sony for that).

Things have just moved on its natural course but things have changed that much, never mind radically changed!

[Domstercool]

It made the market wider for people. When the PSX hit the shelves it basically kicked gaming into the mainstream. It brought loads of money into the section and from that basically stuck gaming where it is today. If Sony never entered the market, gaming probably would not be as big as it is now.

It's nothing to actually do with the games themselves, just the industry as a whole. You are just looking at the actually gaming side of it and not the impact it put on the market itself.

There's over 100 million PSX sold around the world, hell even the PS2 is nearly hitting that point now, they hit the marketing bang on, it's just something Nintendo and Sega couldn't do back then. They couldn't get the gaming out of the closet. That is why it radically changed the industry to what it is today.

[dazzybee]

I see your point but didnt the NES shift 80 million units? I wouldnt call that a radical change. Also, I think the industry has grown UNBELIEVABLY your point is unarguable, however, I just dont think its been revolutionary. I think this is the point were start to go round in circles :)

[Triple_C]

The biggest thing in gaming was mario.

[dukkadukka]

playstation revolutionalised the gaming audience. not gaming itself, happy?
but by radically altering the audience, and the average gamer's expectations, it forced developers, and therefore their games, to change aswell. and if you lot still can't see it, then yous can stick your friggin revolution where the sun don't shine :heh: and have an angry smiley from me for extra effect :angry: lol i'm not actually that angry, but seriously, SONY DID REVOLUTIONISE GAMING. fact.

[dazzybee]

I was willing to leave it. But then you put 'fact'. IT'S NOT FACT!!! How did the radically alter gamers perceptions!? How did this inturn change the way developers made games!!?

Just tell, dont make bold abstract statments and declare them as fact. Tell me how games today are revolutionary different from what they were in the SNES days, or even N64 days as the revolition took a hell of a long time, didnt happen over night did it.

Tell me!! IT DIDN'T- peoples biggest complaints this gen are that it is so similar to the N64 days!!! Well this had no bearing from SONY!!!!