Was the SNES vs GENESIS battle the most heated one ever?

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Resident_Hazard said:

JGarret said:
@Resident_Hazard

I agree....let´s cry together.

I'm serious, man.  Once the giant corporations gained ground in gaming, it's like the point of gaming got lost in the shuffle to make the most money.  Before, it was about which companies liked working together, and who liked which hardware and that kind of thing.

After Sony and then MS entered the fray, it was about who could throw around the most money and buy up the most studios, not who could make the best exclusives and come up with the most creative games.

I always felt that the industry was better off when it was video game companies making hardware and competing.  Nintendo, Sega, Atari, Neo-Geo, NEC/Hudson all made names for themselves as video game companies with occasional forays in computers or other forms of entertainment (like TV, card games, etc).  Not that I don't recognize that Sega and Atari took a lot of steps to hurt themselves, but still, I can't help but think that major corporations have now priced the industry out of the range of actual video game companies except for Nintendo who, for too long, had been reliant on their core fanbase to keep them afloat.

 

Amen.

Those were awesome days, and if you were going to talk shit on a console it was to the other fanboy's face instead of on the internet.

But think the most important thing is what you just mentioned, when it went to companies who do video games on the side something good was lost.  I'm glad at least one is left standing.