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jarrod on 12 July 2010
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Jo21 said:
jarrod said:

Something to consider, Sony's only ever won against Nintendo when they've launch 1-2 years before them (PSvsN64, PS2vsGC).  When they launched alongside them or slightly after (PSPvsDS, PS3vsWii) they've lost, and lost big.


not true. it won because nintendo had not support from third party, because it own mistakes with them, censorship, and not wanting to jump cds. sony was able to get all big games, from GTA4, FF and own gran turismo. by the time ps2 was released they were already playstation exclusives

PSP actually was shown in japan in 2003, psp lost because lacked it expanded casual gaming that nintendo managed to get with games like cooking mama, brain trainning. PSP by no means a failure its first portable to eat alot of nintendo portable marketshare, it selling a respectable amount of consoles. and it should pass more than 70m before it retirement.

PS3 lost because it was overengineered 800$ machine, (sold at 600$) and late to the market and nintendo was able to replicate it success of the DS with the wii, with wii sports and wii fit, and it helped push games like mario kart and mario galaxy that are their core market. with microsoft practically takinga all exclusity  from playstation. like paying 50m to rockstar to make GTA4 multiplatform and get timed exclusive DLC.

I'm not attributing the early launches of PS1/PS2 as being the sole reasons they triumphed over Nintendo's platforms (while PS3/PSP utterly failed in the same respect), though I'd say there's no doubt that lead helped (or lack of lead hurt).  I'm just pointing out the pattern...