jarrod said:
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. |
The DS took MANY of the PS2 consumers, way more than the 360 did. The PSP also gathered much of the PS2 audience, and now the iPhone is finishing the job. To a smaller degree, the Wii also had that advantage of having some PS2 gamers cross over because it added a new value to the equation, with the controller.
The generational transition was not good enough this time around. People didn't feel the value was justified, the graphics were already good enough on the PS2, there was no need to improve. So they went with a smaller portable version, that was new value.
People were looking for new values, they still are.
