| Erik Aston said: SNES/Genesis... Although its looked at as this great glory period and is even seemingly considered the paradigm of console wars... In fact, that was a rare case where both companies involved blew it. SEGA was trying to get their own Mario... They finally got Sonic a few years into Genesis' cycle... But this was not a smart move... It proved impossible for them to establish multiple mega-franchises in the face of Nintendo's franchises... They played Nintendo's game, and lost. It was somewhat smart to go after an older audience than Nintendo... They correctly thought that if they could get the young teens, that the younger kids would want what the older kids were playing... But this was too little of a differentiation. And it was the last smart move SEGA made... They started this big back-and-forth "console war" with Nintendo, that was destructive for both companies. Once they started releasing weird attachments for their console, it was over... And it didn't help that they just didn't manage their money well... SNES... A case of poor timing... 3D and CD were ready in 1993 or 94 if Nintendo had been willing to ride out NES, which was still dominating Genesis... Instead, Nintendo thought they had to compete with system power, and they followed SEGA right after that same teen audience with their marketing... Essentially two companies fighting over the same pie, which used to belong to one company. Nintendo ended up with a 60% share of the WW market, but their profits diminished greatly, despite Game Boy. A winning console, caught in an awkward middle ground in-between where technology dictated the generational change should belong... Owning merely the 91-94 timeframe before PlayStation came out...
Hard fought console wars are destructive to the industry... We just went through 2 straight generations where 2 companies made tons of cash... Sony got an early lead, and after losing, Nintendo was smart enough to focus on handhelds... And on the bottom line... Both companies made healthy profits, with different niches... Leading up to this console war, there was more hype about MS vs. Sony than there ever was about Sony vs. Ninty... And people should have known this was a bad sign... Its no surprise that both Sony and MS are burning billions now... I mean, people should realize that its destructive when we use the term "war" to describe it...
Long and short... Yeah, PS3 is dead in the water.. |
About the 3d and CD being ready in 1993 or 1994, Nintendo didnt put CD in their system in 1996 why do you think they would in 1994?
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