vaio said:
In the wake of ever decreasing sales and the lack of new software titles, Nintendo of America officially discontinued the NES by 1995. Despite this, Nintendo of Japan kept producing new Nintendo Famicom units up until September 2003. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System I would like to see Sony keep producing the PS 2 for 20 years like Nintendo did with the NES.
Nintendo of America ceased production of the SNES in 1999,[35] about two years after releasing Kirby's Dream Land 3 (its last first-party game for the system) on November 27, 1997. In Japan, Nintendo continued production of the Super Famicom until September 2003 The SNES kept in production for 13 years that makes both Nintendo systems that were succesfull with longer lifespan then both Sony´s. Now I am interested in how you are going to spin this. |
FIRST, if you look at my other post you will see i told NES and GameBoy are the only Nintendo consoles with long lifespan.
NES lasted 10 years (1985-1995) ONLY because it didn't have competition. If a consoles doesn't have a competition it can last over 100 years. PS1 had a competition against 7 CONSOLES (N64,Sega Saturn, Dreamcast,Xbox,GameCube,Xbox 360) and it had outsold them all. NES had a only 1 console to fight with.that's why it lasted that long.
Why didn't N64 lasted 10 years like NES?Because it had a bigger and stronger competition than NES. PS1 had a competition with the consoles which were 10 times better in graphics and multimedia (Xbox 360, GameCube... )
And how many SNES were sold in 2003? 10 maybe?








. That's very long if you ignore the fact that Sony made us wait 6 years for PS2 and 6 years for PS3, and Microsoft made us wait 4 years for 360.