| Ronster316 said: Sony opened the floodgates for other "corporations" to join this business hence i hold them responsible. Should a praise sony for harldy making any games yet been one of the most successful companys in the gaming industry? Everybody knows that the REAL HEROES in this business are the likes of Sega, Nintendo, Atari, Capcom, Konami, Namco ect. So should a applaud sony for "buying" their way to the top?............................... I think not.
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WAY back when, video game people had their roots in making arcade games, and thus you had the connection between software and hardware. One can argue Sony was the first to not come from this to be successful (this isn't quite true), but to say what you are saying and not dock Microsoft is WAY too much bias. Sony WAS in the videogame business before the Playstation. They actually released games on the Genesis, and SNES, and Sega CD. Ok, they SUCKED, but they were still that.
As far as this practice goes, let me remind you pre-crash, who was involved:
1. Atari
2. Mattel. You know, the toy maker. They had the Intellivision.
3. Magnavox. They released the FIRST home videogame system, called the Odyssey. The Odyssey 2 was released around when Atari released the 2600. Maybe you haven't heard of Magnavox? How about Phillips (Magnavox is a division under them)? You know they compete against Sony in the electronics area, right?
4. Colleco. This is a toy maker know for the Cabbage Patch doll and the Collecovision.
5. Bally. They released the Astrocade system. It played Bally-Midway arcade games, because Bally was the maker and they merged with Midway. The Astrocade was WAY ahead of its time, and more advanced then the Atari 2600 that outsold it by a wide margin.
6. Emerson. They make some electronics. They also released a videogame system.
Post-crash, you see these:
3DO. Trip Hawkins of EA decides to start his own console company, with a much better licensing agreement for software makers, and license the hardware out to different manufacturers.
And there are too many others to mention.
And I can list others. The pure arcade game company is far more the exception if you look at history of systems. In your blind hatred of Sony, you have grown blind in not seeing what is really going on and do a large disservice to everyone on here.
In regards to the apparent hatred of Sony discussed here, most of it is brought on by Sony themselves, their lost of market share, and their repeated apparent underperforming.
