Why was the PSX a failure if its technology was advanced?
In 2000, Sony released the second desktop console as a successor to PlayStation, one of the consoles that many will fondly remember. It was one of the systems best sellers in the history of the company, but what many don’t know is that Sony released a new version 3 years later called PSX: one of the biggest failures of the Japanese company and which ended up being pulled from the market in 2005.
PSX added features that were not typical of consoles of the time, as a DVD recorder, TV tuner and hard drive for multiple uses. If we transfer this idea to the present, the benefits are not very different from those that can be a current generation PlayStation. The reason? With it, we can not only play, but also listen to music, play content or record our games so that we can download them on different platforms such as YouTube.
Then…Why was the PSX a failure if the technology was advanced for the time? With such a promising idea and an ending that hasn’t been so much separated from what is currently found in the video game world, this defeat can be surprising. The reality of this lack of success when it launched in Japan is linked with some features well explained in the video above.
