The year head start, just a thought..

[sguy78]

JPL78 said:

But Nintendo must have had boatloads of revenue coming off the NES/SNES/Gameboy era. That didn't really catapult the N64 into any kind of lead over the Playstation.

I mean I see what you guys are saying but I'm not sure "spent a lot of money to get good games" is really a bad thing. That's what I want my console publisher to do, secure the top titles I wish to play.

But there seems to be some popularity aspect going on that seems to stem from Halo. I ended up watching TV one night and in three different shows all you saw was that white xbox controller (kind of like all you see in TV shows are Mac computers). In fact, I can't even recall ever seeing a PS3 in popular media outside of their own commercials. When Playstation was king all you saw was that playstation controller in movies, tv, etc. Now there seems to have been a switch in popularity.

I don't really care about how popular any given system is but it does seem to have some effect on potential buyers of a system when all they see represented in media is one certain system over another. I certainly know plenty of people who bought Playstation 2, knowing nothing about games except that it was "cool" to have. Why has the public opinion switched over to microsoft?

 

Most of the time, those products are there for a reason. They were there as subtle advertising. GM cars being in Transformers wasn't because Michael Bay loves GM.