| leo-j said: @munkeh Thats not it, before the ps3 launched before wii, the ds and psp were = because of psp supply constraints people thought sony was going to take over the hanheld market, heck when the name "REVOLUTION" dissapeared there were roumers nintendo was leaving the video game industry... I just dont get whats going on, how did nintendo go from nothing to GODS? |
You have to realize that every generation each company needs to make their console special so that it differentiates itself from the others, or at the very least keeps up. The generally accepted thing to do is to increase the graphical power, but how you get there is an art. Sony made many engineering and design mistakes when preparing the PS3, which lead to their extremely high price point at launch (and extremely high losses last fiscal year).
Nintendo had another idea -- they saw that development costs were reaching unsustainable levels for many game developers. Everyone in the computer industry realizes that power is an inevitability: there will always be people developing it and factories with improving manufacturing capacity. Every generation power becomes cheaper and more available by default. Nintendo decided to use this this to their advantage and make significant innovations with control for both their DS and their Wii systems.
And in both cases, they paid off bigtime.
Nintendo didn't exactly come out of left field here. They already have, by far, the strongest first party development. And with the DS, they were building third party relationships where they held a lot of leverage: developing for the DS is extremely lucrative. Nintendo had all of the pieces in place to push harder than ever before this generation. Microsoft didn't see it coming because they never see anything coming. They're not exactly visionaries. Sony should have seen it coming, but they were far too proud of their brand to see anything else.
As of late, Sony has been doing an admirable job of digging itself out of the PS3 hole that Kutagari left them in. The holiday season is over now and we'll see if they can maintain any momentum or if they'll go the way that both they and Microsoft went last year.
