Just to make sure you realise rehashing didn't begin with the PS1 nor were they the first to go "overboard".
The madden franchise started on the Apple II and commodore 64 then ported to SNES where it released 7 madden games in the SNES life span, plus you got your NHL(5) and NBA(4) games, kirby games, mario (of course), and Bomberman.
Lets look at the sega now, 4 double dragon games (I remember really liking these games), NBA live games started here (plus you got your maddens and fifas and what not), then you got your sonic games and all the spin-offs, golden axe was another game with many "Rehashes".
How about the 6 mega man games the preceded that on the NES plus the plethora of Donkey Kong games, lets throw in castlevania while were at it.
Let's go even further aback to the Atari 2600 frogger ring a bell, 4 Q bert games (same amount of Twisted metal games on ps1). If you want to go further back you got arcades with god only knows how many "rehashes" and ripoffs/spinoffs.
"Rehashes" are part of gaming along with a lot ofother differnt forms of media(Movies, T.V, Books, etc.).I left a lot of games out that had multiple releases on a system (sorry PC). If you believe one console is destroying gaming then you are ignorant to what gaming is. Gaming is ever changing with each new generation there is some change (talking mostly console gaming because PC changes fast...). First you had arcades to home consoles (skipping generations because of lack of knowledge of the subject), with the fifth generation of gaming (PS1, N64, Saturn etc.) you had the full 3D games, sixth generation (Dreamcast, Gamecube, PS2, XBOX) you had the start of online in consoles, this generation you have the integration of motion sensing and downloadable content plus all consoles are heading more of the way of multi-media devices such as the internet browser, music/video storage, etc..
If anything is going to destroy gaming its the close minded gamers not the systems or there games.
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