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Message: [QUOTE="sun0wl, post: 108993, member: 133365"] Not an expert by any means, and my game history lore is rusty, but: I agree and would add that in general, it just cost a lot less in terms of money and man hours to produce the average game back then. Particularly for the PlayStation, I think it also saw a lot of these risky/out-there ventures due to the relative ease of development for the PS1 via [URL='https://www.retroreversing.com/official-playStation-devkit']the dev kit that allowed development on a PC[/URL] (compared to the reportedly hellish programming difficulties the Saturn's architecture presented, and the difficulty of just getting a just getting green light from Nintendo for N64 development lol). [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze']According to wikipedia[/URL], people even made commercial games with Net Yaroze, which was substantially cheaper than the [URL='https://www.retroreversing.com/official-playStation-devkit']$15k dev kit console[/URL]. Indeed, along with the largest library, the PS1 may well have had had the widest variety of weird games of the generation for these reasons. (See: [URL='https://retrogametalk.com/threads/ps1-weird-games.5739/#post-108976']this ongoing thread lol[/URL]) Perhaps some devs were more inclined to take risks with small investments. And companies flush with cash like Square seem to have just went nuts (much to the benefit of my childhood in gaming). [/QUOTE]

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