The Connections Project

Sony Playstation

The Playstation, one might argue, was the first popular "TransNintendoist" console, in the sense that the PS is so much more powerful, that an NES-style game could be seamlessly embedded inside a PS game. PS games began to include "minigames" like the FF7 bike game, which, by their lone selves, even with graphics downgraded appropriately, would have represented very impressive games on the NES.

For many games, especially RPG fans, the Playstation, by wresting the market away from the SNES, finally broke the decade-long stranglehold which Nintendo had on the entire console market.

The PSX and the N64 were sister consoles, coming out roughly the same time and competing head-to-head for the market. Objectively, the Playstation won hands down. It eschewed the classic cartridge storage for games and was the first major console to use CDs. The increased load times and necessity of memory cards this created was more than made up for by the huge advantage in sheer space the PSX developers had to work with. The disk-and-memory-card combination even allowed multiple-disk games like FF7; there was no hypothetical limit at all on how much content could be put in a single Playstation Game, as long as enough disks were made. By contrast, N64 developers had relatively little space to work with. Besides that, titles for the N64 tended to be somehow more "cartoony" than their competition on the PSX.