I´m a Nintendofan and heres why I´m grateful to Sony.

[samus aran rules]

bardicverse said:
From a gaming industry perspective, I truly have no issue with Sony, minus for thinking that it was ok to charge $500-$600 for the PS3 at launch, but they got theirs for that arrogant move.

My gripe with Sony goes much further back in time, when they bastardized the music industry, setting up a system where a musician royalty became even less the the meager amounts from the 50s. THey mastered the perfect trap for any musician dumb enough to believe their promises. Anyway, this is not about that, so I won't dertail the post.

If there is one thing that Sony DIRECTLY did, it was to push Nintendo home consoles away from cartridge based systems to disc based systems. Afterall, if NIntendo wasn't so arrogant, there wouldn't have been a PS1, as Sony was working with Nintendo at the time to make a cd based console. With the PS1, Nintendo realized their mistake and went to discs for the GameCube.

Yes this is true, and it´s one of the things I should have written regarding that Sony is at the forefront when it comes to pushing the technical aspects of things (even though I love the old cartridges).