Microsoft has almost nothing to offer the single most important growth market for games over the next 10 years. Unfreakingbelievable. |
Omg you are forgetting about the Zune. I saw these guys in a commercial. They were dancing with their Zune. They seemed happy, man. HAPPY. Anyway, mistakes:
Sega: Couldn't recover from a failure.
Sony: $600 for a console. What is this, a 3DO? "Despite a highly-promoted launch and a host of cutting-edge technologies, the system's high price ($699.95 USD at release) and an over-saturated console market prevented the 3DO from ever achieving any real market penetration." Subtract 100 dollars and change 3DO to PS3 and you might have the future.
Nintendo: Not finishing their contract with Sony. The playstation was originally an add-on for the SNES. Nintendo should have kept it that way, but they couldn't tell the future, and told sony to buzz off, thus the PS1 was born. Obviously the Virtual Boy was a failure, but atleast they tried, and didn't lose too much money. The Gunpei Yokoi guy was fired though, and died a few years later. So nintendo lost more than just $$ with the virtual boy.
Microsoft: They've never made money on games since the xbox. I guess thats their biggest problem, LOL!
