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WilliamWatts on 13 January 2010
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lestatdark said:

But no one is denying that Nintendo has always had the biggest impact on the video game market, hell they praticaly created it from scratch after the Video Game crash in 1983, and they'll be around for a long time with much more profit and much more knowledge on how the market shifts and moves along the years. 

The people who cannot see this, must really take a history lesson of what Nintendo means to the video game market.

But I also don't count out Sony, Microsoft or any other competitors that might appear on the future, because, just as Nintendo made their way into being the biggest video game company in the world, so can any other company do the same with time.

When I posted that comparison, I was strictly talking about the console market, because we all know that Nintendo has always dominated the handheld market. The only other competitor that has managed to take a slight bit of their market share from handhelds has been Sony with the PSP, but I see that Apple with the concept of the iPhone can also bring something new to that market, even though I think that Nintendo will be a step ahead of anyone who tries to enter that market.

Also, I'm not against your points of view, I share most of them, but I also think that many things can still change, as the future of the video game market is not set on stone (this generation has been a prime example of it, many people never thought that Nintendo could pull off such a reaction for the Wii and DS, yet those same people were proven wrong), so counting out Sony, even with their blunders, I think it's a bit premature to do.

The thing is with Sony and Microsoft is that being 2nd/3rd their positions aren't ensured and there is a very real possibility that the success of one will drive the other out of the market. When it comes to core market adoption and especially online the market itself dictates that one console encompass that entire market as competing standards for communications have done in the past. Since PSN and Xbox Live are not inter-operatable any great momentum for one can easily seal the fate of the other.

There aren't many players outside the console market which would have the balls and resources to foot a competing console. The only ones which come to mind are Apple. However as interlopers into an extremely competitive market they would have to take share from either Nintendo or Sony/Microsofts segments of the market and neither are easy tasks for a new-comer to do.

I wouldn't count anyone out for the next generation at this point, the only thing which is *almost* certain is that Nintendo will have a strong place in the market and a fuller slice of all the market segments they failed to capture this time around. If their going with a powerful Nvidia chipset for the next handheld is any indication it won't be a slouch in terms of overall performance.