/vr/ - Retro Games

Yeah, Sony was assholes about 2D and low-fidelity games during the PS1 and PS2 eras, apparently they were worried that they would make their system look weak compared to their competitors. They were even worse about it in the west. I recall that Disgaea almost didn't get released in the US because of that policy, and is likely part of the reason why many 2D RPGs didn't make it across the seas. The fact that their systems WERE weaker than the competition (except for SEGA's hardware) but still trounced all other rivals by a large margin in the PS1 and PS2 era really should have clued them in that the perceived power of a console means jack shit... and the Wii really hammered that point home in the PS3 era.

I recall the biggest complaint Ken Kutaragi had about the original US Playstation mascot, Polygon man, was that he he flat shaded instead of the more advanced Gouraud Shading the PS1 could do.