BoleroOfFire said:
And again, why would third parties not put games on the Nintendo console if it were the only one on the market? Ever heard of the NES or the SNES? I'm going to go with no since you made that 480p comment. Obviously, you weren't playing games before this generation started. |
Of course, third parties would develop for a monopolized console, but if that console were the Wii it would alienate a lot of gamers like myself that expect the industry to move forward.
The first console I owned was the Genesis (which you seem to have forgotten coexisted with the SNES), but the first console I played was Intellivision. I'm actually part of that unique generation that didn't play video games at all during high school because when the technology didn't improve we all lost interest and found other things to do. I've watched the industry grow from generation to generation and each new cycle of consoles has completely blown away what has come before. However, with the Wii Nintendo's focus (which has worked out amazingly for them) has been on expanding the videogame audience to non-gamers and core gamers (now a minority) have been virtually ignored.
Nintendo has frequently frustrated me as a company because they seem hell-bent on holding the videogame industry back on a technological front: sticking with cartridges when everyone else went to disc-based media, staying with SD when everyone else has gone HD, sticking with Dolby PLII a generation after XBOX went 5.1, etc.
