Snake said:
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?
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Nes didn´t last 10 years it lasted 20 years+ just because it stopped selling in the US after 10 years that doesn´t mean it stopped selling, US doesn´t equal the world. In 2005 u could still buy the NES here brand new and you probably still can (haven´t checked but I can if you want) so the NES had 20+ year lifespan and don´t u try and take that away from the NES.
Moving goalpoasts now are we? you never said anything about how many had to be sold the last year/years. You talked about being on the market and being supported by the consoles manufacturer and the fact is that Sony haven´t beaten Nintendo in that department yet and probably never will, but it still can do it with the PS 2.
Nes didn´t have any competition? in wich reality do you live in?
Besides the examples of astro above me, I can tell you that t´he NES was in direct competition with the C64, I assume you weren´t alive at that time and grew up with PS as the main console but *I was alive and I remember it well. So not only did it compete with Sega,C64 and the Amiga but also all the Astrosmash competition then add the life span of 20 years and it was in competition with all the consoles along the way even if it sales between 1995-2005 weren´t that great they were still there.
One last thing US is not the world the NES didn´t come out in 1985 it came out in 1983.
Bad try to spin that away please try again so I can prove you wrong all over again.
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. 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.