If sony only made software who should they support?

[vaio]

mibuokami said:

vaio said:

mibuokami said:

Shadowblind said:

I'd say that for a while, they may support mainly Ninty, since it was only after MS entered the console warz did their domination end, depending on available hardware. Still afterwards they'd probably take the SEGA route and do multi.

And as many will need to come in here and say..."its not ever gonna happen, etc."

By that logic, Sega should have supported Nintendo exclusively as Sony was one of the big reason on why they failed with the Saturn / Dreamcast

 

Don't fool yourself, honour is dead.

Long live money our eternal master in the corporate world.

No they wouldn´t before Sony entered Nintendo was Sega´s biggest enemy and I am still suprised they actually pot anything on a Nintendo system. The biggest reason Sega went out was themselves Sony only helped making the procedure faster.

So you think the Wii hasn't stolen some market share of the PS3 as well? Shadowblind was singling out MS who are instrumental in bringing Sony to its current position but a large part of the problem was also Sony mismanagement. Sega lost market share to both Nintendo and Sony, but the lionshare whent to Sony, they've also made some terrible bussiness decision, much more so than even Sony.

I'm drawing similiar parallel to counter a similiar situation, not trying to give the correct and up-to-date ananlysis of Sega's downfall :p

I think the Wii has taken market share out of everyone.

My point was that Sega always saw Nintendo as their biggest opponent.

As an aswer to the post above this one:

he SNES-CD was to be announced at the June 1991 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). However, when Hiroshi Yamauchiread the original 1988 contract between Sony and Nintendo, he realized that the earlier agreement essentially handed Sony complete control over any and all titles written on the SNES CD-ROM format.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation

Nintendo knew at the time that cd would be the future and handing controll over any and all titles to sony that was only supposed to help them out with the cdrom would have been suicide for Nintendo.