>vice president of marketing and communications for Atari's International Division>one of the consultants for Sega of America, brought in by Tom Kalinske to try and dethrone Nintendo>first president of Sony Computer Entertainment of America>star of his very personal moment, the infamous $299 single-word announcement at E3 1995>co-creator of Polygon Man>left Sony to be CEO of Spectrum HoloByteFor being such an important figure in 90s gaming, Steve Race is relatively obscure. He doesn't even have a Wikipedia page.
>>11698393three page article from GameFan magazine
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>>11698456This is interesting, I've always felt that way especially if you look at the first 2-3years of games on PSX. It wasn't until years later that the PSX really started to target pre-teens.Basically, unlike what disingenous posters with their "lol kids games" argument like to pretend, there were *always* two audiances, the pre-teens and and the young adults. The pre-teens may have been numerous but the ones pouring the most money into the industry were always the young adults, not the kid with no money who got 2 games a year. This is corroborated by what he says on the last page about "being here thanks to the enthusiasts".Also he's claiming he's not bringing Motor Toon because it's "too juvenile" so they were really heavily leaning towards the maturity image here>>11698458The part how Sega and Nintendo have to spread their marketing towards several platforms but they only focus on a single one is also interestingalso everyone really believed integrating FMV to the gameplay was a future for video games
>>11698393>The answer was...>Yes.
>>11698393>i don’t think you need to have a long lineage of game history…Unfortunately true and Sony has been shitting up gaming for 30 years now because of it
>>11699225Sony won for a reason, though.
>>11699225PS1 was great for what it did for developers and accessibility. In fact every game console until 7th gen was good for gaming. Each console until then had a unique personality of gaming with big differences in tech.
