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« on: February 16, 2003, 02:49:32 PM »
The "innovation" is not what's selling the PS2. It's the developers making games for the huge fan base. The Playstation did change the way video games were done, opting for the CD format over the cartridge and such, but the PS2 has no advantage over the Gamecube or Xbox. Actually, one could argue that the PS2 has the Audio CD and DVD playability and Gamecube does not, so it's better. That argument makes sense if that's what you want. However, the PS2 does not have anything over Xbox, which plays DVDs, CDs, and has far superior graphical capabilities when compared to the PS2, as well as the innovation of being the first console to have a hard drive.
Bottom Line: PS2 was first. More people bought it before GC or Xbox came out. Now GC and Xbox are out, but developers would rather make games for the console with 30 million consumers than the one with 5 million, and therefore the GC and Xbox aren't getting the games that the PS2 is. Thus, people will buy the PS2 because it has the most games. And there are more games because it came out first.
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