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- Some players feel that made gaming less interesting, as the consoles brought with them a shift towards longer, less immediate games and the dominance of annual mega-franchises. While Sony wasn’t perfect during this era, with even the likes of SNK and Sega falling foul of its content approval process at times, we don’t agree. Such a view ignores the fact that publishers were willing to try weird things, simply because the sheer size of those consoles’ audiences meant that there were potential markets

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