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tl;dr
>OMG 3D
>racing games have a small field of view, so lots of tricks can be done to ease computation burden
>means loads of fancy looking tracks as who gives a fuck with that castle by the side of the road is only modelled on one face, you'll never see the sides
>cars can be anything you fucking want, real or fake a cool car is a cool car
>mechanically racing games are fairly simple, so it is easy to make them
>music because WE CD NAO and the psx can actually handle cd quality audio
Plenty of stinkers on the playstation due to the huge library (lmao max power racing) but the move to 3d in 5th gen was a MASSIVE boon for the genre.

Need for speed 3.

Not especially. I was big into racism as a shota and now i'm still into racism but with some rooty tooty point-and-shooty on the side.