The PS2 launch simply spoiled the industry, you simply cannot find a lineup that has ever been met with so many games that became cult-classics – SSX, TimeSplitters, Midnight Club: Street Racing and Tekken Tag Tournament to name a few. Sports fans had more than enough options to choose from, RPG gamers had new franchises seemingly pop out of nowhere, shooter fans had one of the highest regarded shooter franchises kick off with TimeSplitters and even puzzle fans got FantaVision. The PS2 was on fire – everyone wanted one, even taking to a circa-2000-eBay to purchase the console at an exorbitant price.ĭan: It is hard to say how much of the PS2’s success was due to its strong launch, but looking at the number of titles, as well as the diversity, it is hard to find much fault with it. Seb: Now it’s time to hear about the king – the best selling console of all time, managing an unbeatable 150 million sales and 1.5 billion game sales on over 3850 titles.Ĭoming riding off of the smash hit that was the PS1, everyone knew that the PS2 would be a big hit, but concerns existed over the Dreamcast’s fierce competition – it had sold half a million units in its first two weeks.īut no one should have held any concerns, as sales of the PS2, games, and accessories raked in a whopping $250 million on the first day, easily outpacing the Dreamcast’s $97 million. launch: Octo– 27 TitlesĪrmored Core 2 * DOA2: Hardcore * Dynasty Warriors 2 * ESPN International Track & Field ESPN Winter X Games Snowboarding * Eternal Ring * Evergrace * FantaVision * Gungriffon Blaze * Madden NFL 2001 * Midnight Club: Street Racing * NHL 2001 * Orphen: Scion of Sorcery * Q-Ball: Billiards Master * Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 * Ridge Racer V * Silent Scope * Smuggler’s Run * SSX * Street Fighter EX3 * Summoner * Surfing H3O * Swing Away Golf * Tekken Tag Tournament * TimeSplitters * Unreal Tournament * Wild Wild Racing * X-Squad
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But one blight on the launch was the console release of Street Fighter The Movie (the game), which, despite intriguing characters that used real pictures, was a terrible game. Importantly, what made the launch so special was that nearly every genre and game type that was around at the time was covered. While many of the launch titles have slipped out of memory, hits like Rayman and Ridge Racer remain popular to this day. Seb: The PS1 was new, unproven in the US and with only a few months of breathtaking sales in Japan to prove its worth. So, no matter what these games might look like now, they were the first of a new breed of gaming and should have a place in the heart of anyone lucky enough to have experienced them.īut, as a launch line-up goes, this isn’t actually that terrible of a selection, even though there were only 10 games to choose from.
As the rise of the CD format was just starting to emerge as a gaming medium, it was Sony’s entry into the market that really gave it a home in the mass market and helped facilitate the industry we currently have.
But, if you remember back when these titles were released, they were in a market where 3D gaming as we know it was still mostly limited to the arcades and extremely high priced hardware like the 3DO. launch: Septem– 10 Titlesīattle Arena Toshinden * ESPN Extreme Games * Kileak: The DNA Imperative * NBA Jam Tournament Edition * Power Serve 3D Tennis * Raiden Project * Rayman * Ridge Racer * Street Fighter: The Movie * Total Eclipse Turboĭan: Looking back at the first set of PlayStation games to ever hit the US market, it is hard to imagine that it has become the power-house that it has.
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