What if Sony...

[jarrod]

leo-j said:

jarrod said:

leo-j said:
then nothing would stop sony from having a 3rd dominant gen.. what stopped them this gen was the fact they fucked up with the price, and destroyed there brand name

Well, that's half of it.  The other half was Nintendo.

we really don't know now do we

 

No, we do.  Nintendo's quite literally won on their own merits (since 3rd parties have delivered almost nothing but shovelware for them).  I think even a "best case" PS3 wouldn't have taken away from that, as Nintendo went in a different direction entirely and that's what led to it's own success.  Wii took the mass market, and was probably fated to always take the mass market so long as Sony/MS went with the standard generational cycle.

Same deal for DS really, though there at least Nintendo was the incumbent market leader too.