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>>8921308
>the moment Sony announced that the PlayStation was going to be $299 vs the Saturn's $399
Nah, that wasn't really the problem. There was an expectation that the console business only had room for Sega and Nintendo so the Playstation would be doomed to humiliating failure just like the 3DO and Jaguar. $299 was a big gamble because the Playstation's future was extremely uncertain. $399 for a Saturn seemed like a more stable investment because it was motherfucking Sega and surely it wouldn't prematurely die or anything. What really fucked it over was a combination of its botched launch, the complex architecture making developers avoid it, and its weak specs. The Playstation's rise is really a direct result of Sega and Nintendo both simultaneously shitting the bed.