| CGI-Quality said: * facepalm * Ok, your first sentence is basically saying that Nintendo is THE ONLY VIDEO GAME COMPANY making video game consoles. What you're saying is, Microdsoft and Sony aren't "video game" companies. If you're talking STRICTLY, I agree, Nintendo is STRICTLY a gaming company. However, Microsoft and Sony ARE video game companies, they just do OTHER things as well. Now, to your second set of sentences: Sony rivaled Nintendo as a software AND a hardware company, and still continue to do so, as does Microsoft. COMPETITORS are people who rival you in the same market/field/set of business. Nintendo has two of them, period, end of story. Sega was also a rival company, who weren't as financially equipped (obviously) to take on a company like Microsoft, Sony, or Nintendo. For the past decade, Sony has beaten Nintendo in amount of software on the market, (that is how many pieces of software were on the market between the PS1 and PS2 that ONLY graced those consoles), brand recognition, and hardware sales. Nintendo has LARGE sellers within their first party studios, in fact the LARGEST, but it doesn't mean that Microsoft and Sony's offerings are chopped liver, as you seem to be implying. I'm tired of this immobile, useless debate. You've been given accounts from all sides, yet still choose to ignore the facts, which are: Sony - A video game/music/TV/phone/Electronics Company Microsoft - A Video Game/PC Software Company Nintendo - A (STRICTLY - NOT "THE ONLY") Video Game Company ALL are Video Game manufactureres that make their own software and ARE competitors within this industry. DEAL. WITH. IT!!!!! |
Just because they make video games does not make them video game companies. I bet if you ask a Microsoft or Sony investor if they had shares in a video game company they look cross at you.
Yeah Sony did rival Nintendo in making a platform but not in making games. Sega rivaled Nintendo in making games and a platform.
