That said though, the influence and sheer sales statistics of Resident Evil are impossible to ignore. Maybe it's a bit of an exaggeration to attribute much of the success of the Playstation to the horror games that were made for it.
Oh, to be sure, you could find platformers, RPGs, racing games, shooters, and puzzle games on the N64 and the Sega 32X as well. What really gave Playstation its edge over the competition, though, was its flexibility in terms of genre. With well-known franchise hits like Final Fantasy VII, Castlevania's Symphony of the Night (a VASTLY superior game to Castlevania 64), and Dragon Quest VII, brought massive established fanbases with them. Industry heavyweights like Squaresoft, Konami and Capcom recognized the higher production costs of cartridges, as well as the storage capabilities offered by the new Compact Disc format. For starters, the third party support for the system was tremendous. Yet despite this, the Playstation, Sony's upstart console, outsold both.
The Nintendo 64 and the Sega 32X both included their processing speed in their names. In the mid-late 90s, console gaming had resorted to the basest of name-calling: who has the most bits? With the 16-bit era coming to a close, consoles raced to see who would have the best processor, and this became such a major marketing point that it was included in the console names. I think it's fair to say that the Playstation, in the 5th Generation Console Matchup, was the undisputed conqueror of the marketplace.
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