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Ronster316 said:

darthdevidem01 said:
@ronster

no-one is a "REAL" Gaming company

thats like fanboys saying "Wii doesn't have REAL GAMES"

Nintendo was a card company before it was a "Gaming" company

your posts reek of fanboyism so badly

 

You still don't get it do you?

Sega and Nintendo already had in house developers when they launched their consoles thus making them REAL gaming companies.

Sony did not even like videogames (looked down upon the business) to begin with and only launched the playstation due to Ken Kutaragis powers of persuasion.

Sony got by for the first few years on the back of 3rd party moneyhatting and buying any development company that would take their "corporate money".

Sony's entry in to the world of videogames will always be seen as seedy, hence videogames lost their soul when ps1 launched.

And as for my posts, they are no worse than any of the pro sony rubbish that i have seen you spew over the last 18 months.

Both of you need to cool down a bit, not that you've stepped on any toes yet just a warning before the flames fly.

About the Sonic & Kuckles thing with sonic 1, 2, and 3, very few people didn't have a copy of those games that owned a SEGA Gen back in the day.  The exras weren't that great, you could play as Knuckles in levels that were not designed for him, whoopie, they didn't force anyone to do anything, and the way S&K worked is you instert the cart on top it basically fed the data from that cart to the other that dumped the levels into S&K and then you could play with the improvements of S&K. 

Furthermore secret levels were all the craze back in the day hell SMB3 has more secrets then you can shake a stick at, then you had add-ons you could use Nintendo didn't force you, it's not like DLC at all.  The DLC is mostly already on the disc but now instead of doing some code to unlock it you pay 5 dollars to play with it.

As far as soul leaving the industry?  I still see plenty as long as creative minds like Tim Shafer, Miyamoto, Shigesato Itoi, etc still make games the soul isnt leaving, on the console side of things it has become serious business, but this also isnt the 1970s where every electronics company with a little bit of money tried their hands at making consoles, PS1 just ushered in a new era of making gaming mainstream, something that is very HARD to do without corporate involvement. 

Now I will say the pattern that consoles are becoming high powered media centers that cost assloads of money is a pattern that lacks the ability to innovate and is the reason for the Wii this generation corporations are typically hard at making anything new and inventive they're good at copying the inventive ideas and marketing them to more people.