NJ5 said:
Business is rarely altruistic. But in saving themselves from excessive budgets, Nintendo also gave an opportunity for third parties to save money. Imagine if we had three platforms requiring $10+ million budgets for most games.
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it would never have been possible. Nintendo is reaping off their cheaper-to-develop-for-console because it came with innovation. If the ps3 and 360 were on the same level of power as the wii, the wii will definitely have ps2 marketshare by now for sure with all the 3rd party support to boot.
Thats what competition does, 360 already pushed the set the bar high when it launched first and sony didn't have anything particularly innovative so they pusher it further. Nintendo decided to gamble elsewhere simply because they couldn't afford the stakes M$ and sony set considering their performance in the last 2 console gens of their only industry.
Frankly, I think it was the original xbox that started the insane tech push but I don't blame M$ for taking that route. They did what they had to do to get their foot in the door. It may be out of control now but we'll see how things play out. Ps3 and 360 and even the wii may be around much longer than we all expect.
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