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PlayStation demolished everyone. The biggest blow was that Sony managed to take Japan- the home market of Nintendo and Sega.
by WeylandYutani 3y ago
PlayStation demolished everyone. The biggest blow was that Sony managed to take Japan- the home market of Nintendo and Sega.
- londons_explore 3y agoBut sony is also japanese.
- goosedragons 3y agoAnd arguably more Japanese than Sega which traces its routes back to the US and was owned by an American company for many years.
- dangus 3y agoBy this time that’s about as relevant as calling Nintendo a playing card company.
- goosedragons 3y agoEh, the chairman of Sega at the time the PlayStation launched was American.
- nazgulsenpai 3y agoSega of America, yes. Hayao Nakayama was CEO of Sega of Japan from 1983-1999.
- gryson 3y agoThe chairman of Sega Enterprises was Isao Okawa (founder and president of CSK, majority owner of Sega). The president of Sega Enterprises was Hayao Nakayama.
- lapetitejort 3y agoIncidentally, Playstation is primarily an American endeavor now. Sony Interactive Entertainment and Playstation Studios are now based out of California. Most of the first and second party developers are American or European. Playstation owns just one Japanese developer. Some claim that this western shift has compromised the "quirky" aspect of the Playstation brand. Look at the PS1 lineup and you will find so many oddball games that became classics, or at least cult classics. I would not disagree. Playstation has an amazing track record of releasing games, but from a wider view the games do look homogenous.
- fomine3 3y agoSIE shut down Japan Studio. O-X button swap and censorship are unpopular for Japanese. They becoming US culture quickly.
- DeathArrow 3y agoAnd after that, Xbox appeared. :)
- pjmlp 3y agoAnd after that, in typical Microsoft's mismanagement, Xbox One happened and they haven't recover ever since.
- wsgeorge 3y agoIs Xbox doing poorly? I don't know much about the console space, but it looks to me like a continued success
- izacus 3y agoIt's doing fine, but Sony is (again) doing a bit beter. Although it's a bit of a loaded question here, since Microsoft integrated Xbox and Windows gaming ecosystem. The current situation is actually pretty nice - there are three big players with big market shares from which neither has a clear monopoly. Microsoft is seriously thretening to break that by buying themself a monopoly in game publishing though.
- pjmlp 3y agoThere were always three big players, previously Microsoft's place was owned by SEGA.
- Keyframe 3y agoWhich resonates more than surface level of that statement you made. Xbox is pretty much next gen SEGA hardware and SEGA was ultimately driven to the ground by a guy that kickstarted Xbox (nasty people would say as a prize)
- sanderjd 3y agoI hadn't thought much about this, but you're so right, it's so refreshing that there is such healthy competition in this market.
- chrisco255 3y agoInterestingly, Sega was founded by Americans, but by the 90s Sega of Japan was in full control of the company.
- gryson 3y agoThere is no "Sega of Japan." Sega Enterprises is a Japanese company that founded the subsidiary Sega of America to market its products in North America. Sega Enterprises can trace its origins to Americans such as David Rosen who were in Japan after the war.
- chrisco255 3y agoSega went through a number of buyouts and merges and renames and spinoffs over the decades so it's a pretty complex history to follow as it alternated between American and Japanese ownership. By the mid 80s, CSK, a Japanese software firm, purchased the company from Gulf and Western, the American owners at the time. They then established Sega of America, so I say "of Japan" to distinguish the Japanese office. The name Sega, is derived from Service Games of Japan, the name in the 1950s.
- _the_inflator 3y agoWell, it started with a coop with Nintendo and Sony: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_NES_CD-ROM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_NES_CD-ROM