Shane on 25 March 2007
Louie said:
Erik Aston said:
Atari had no competition? Nintendo had no competition? (a giant dead market is bigger competition than any Sony or Microsoft like company... oh and there was the Master System)... Super NES had no competition? (Megadrive/Genesis? Biggest console war in history?) Sony had no competition with the biggest game company at this time and Sega, too?
Who was Atari's competition? Recreating a market can be tough, but you don't have to outspend/outdo anyone to do so. Master System was both a joke and late to the party. Super Nintendo did have competition, which is why Nintendo began to stutter (actually, the real problem was that Nintendo underestimated the importance of technology, as always), but that wasn't the generation in which Nintendo established itself. No, Sony had no competition. Saturn and N64 were both dead before they launched, and every major developer had signed with Sony by the time N64 launched. They didn't have it as easy as Nintendo had it, but what fight they did have was won by default.
