Fumanchu said:
pariz said:
Fumanchu said:
exukvera said:
Actually Sony and Microsoft should lower their heads to Nintendo and thank for their mercy.
The only thing that prevented the Wii from reigning supreme atop the seventh generation instead of just grabbing half of the pie like it did resides in the single fact that the Wii is not HD.
How would the PS3/360 fare against a Wii hosting titles like GTA IV, Bioshock, FF XIII, Fallout 3, Oblivion, etc with similar graphics and the Wii remote to boot?
The HD duo have some damn good exclusives, but could do little to prevent the Wii from reaching a supremacy similar to the PS1/PS2 times or even bigger.
Fortunately for them The big N won't come with a Wii sucessor until having a well established 3DS and it shouldn´t happen untill the end of 2011 at least, giving some time for the PS Move and Kinect to shine, but it won't be long before the Eighth Generation begins and the Arms Race start all over again.
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What if scenario's are always a selective perspective - likewise you could say Nintendo is thanking Sony and MS for not releasing motion controls at the start of the generation.
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Man, they didn't have the BALLS to do it. They do it now that they know there is a huge market out there.
And don't come to me with the argument "Nintendo didn't have the balls to go HD". They were the only ones who didn't do it when "the market was pushing in another direction". Once again, they had the BALLS to take a huge risk and chose to be on the fence with a technology that was about to become obsolete, patiently waiting for the momentum.
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I'm not arguing that at all, merely that there's always more than one way to look at it. For instance, you could say that wasn't an issue of 'BALLS' as you so eloquently put it. Nintendo was/is going up against two corporate giants with other successful businesses that are prepared to take huge losses to get the most advanced hardware on the market. Nintendo's sole business is gaming and it would have been a bigger risk for them to take a leaf out of their books. They definitely played to their strengths and turned this whole generation on their heads, to which you can only congratulate them.
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Good Point!
It took years for the PS3/360 to become profitable. They only could cope with those humongous losses because they have other cows to milk. However the systems they worked so hard to put into market are becoming obsolete to the point that some developes claim that the 3DS's power is almost on their level. It only needs for next Nintendo console to be announced, and they must choose between to launch systems with similar power to it, or to spend some more years in the red, with the risk of things turning even worse for them if Nintendo manages to pull another smart move.
