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Snake on 06 January 2009
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astrosmash said:
Snake said:
astrosmash said:

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?

 

 

NES lasted as long as it did because it won the gen and every generation winning console has had a long life span since the Atari 2600.

Using the same rules you used to make a list of the PS' competition the NES faced Master System, Atari 7800, Turbo Graphics, Mega Drive, Neo Geo, 3D0, Saturn, and Playstation. Never mind the fact that there were two gen two systems that sold into the 90s and the NES was in fact on sale during gen 6. (nor does it take into account the other gen 3 systems such as PV-1000)

The N64 didn't last longer because it wasn't first, and with one notable exception (Intellivision) systems that don't win generations tend to go away quickly when the gen ends.

While I don't know how many NES were sold in 2003, I can tell you how many PS were sold in 2005 (a year you count as part of PS ten years) - 15k.

 

 

 

All those consoles who were in competition with NES were poweful just as NES, some were even less powerfull. GameCube Xbox and 360 were 10 times powerful than PS1. and how its Sony's fault Ninredo didn't won any console war against Sony yet? PS3 will have 10 years long lifespan even if it doesent win this console war. And those 15k still beats 0k which N64 sold (LOL)

 

 

"All those consoles who were in competition with NES were poweful just as NES "

The NES was one of the weakest consoles (relative to its time) ever to launch. The CPU was developed in 1975 - eight years before its launch. It clocked at less than half the speed of the gen 2 system Colecovision. From a technical standpoint the NES was a disaster.

 

"GameCube Xbox and 360 were 10 times powerful than PS1 "

The difference between the systems the PS1 competed with at the end of its life and the systems the NES competed with at the end of its isn't even close. The NES faced much stifer competition relative to its specs. The Xbox's CPU was more than 400x faster than the NES' CPU; the xbox actually had a GPU; the Xbox had 32000x more RAM. (do I really need to go on?)

 

"how its Sony's fault Ninredo didn't won any console war against Sony yet?"

I don't know how this question relates to the discussion.

 

 "PS3 will have 10 years long lifespan even if it doesent win this console war. And those 15k still beats 0k which N64 sold"

Every console in the history of video games has been dropped very quickly by its manufacturer when they launch its replacement unless that console won its generation. And every generation winner since gen 2 has stuck around at least through the next gen. Why do you think Sony and PS3 are the exception to this?

 

The reason this has been true for 30 years is that its basis is in simple economics. Does it make more sense to say that PS1 and PS2 lasted for as long as they did (are doing) because of some special Sony policy or because Sony is doing exactly the same thing Nintendo and Atari did for twenty years before them?

 

And 15K is a whole lot less than NES sold at the same age (1993).

 

 

PS3 lifespan was announced by Sony. SCE told PS3 lifespan will be 10 years even if it doesn't win this console war.

 

''The NES was one of the weakest consoles (relative to its time) ever to launch. The CPU was developed in 1975 - eight years before its launch. It clocked at less than half the speed of the gen 2 system Colecovision. From a technical standpoint the NES was a disaster.''

 NES had a ROBOT toy coming with it. and robots are pretty much the best technology (at least for me)