Nintendo Fans, who do you want see OUT of the console race?

[KungKras]

Ajescent said:

KungKras said:

Severance said:

KungKras said:

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MDMAniac said:

KungKras said:

I'll never get over the loss of the greatest rival that Nintendo ever had :)

The only rival to Nintendo is Nintendo themselves.

what about Sony ? PS1 and PS2 days?

They are so different in style from Nitnendo and Sega that they shouldn't be considered a rival.

how so ? they're japanese ?

It's hard to explain. But I'll try.

Sega was like Nintendo in that they are both pure games companies, both relied on first party games to compete and to drive hardware install bases, both have a mascot that are the face of the company, and they have similar licensing practices.

Sony does not have a platformer that is the face of the company They have platformers, sure, but no mascots, and none of their characters is the face of the company the way Sonic or Mario is. They rely on undercutting hardware and paying third parties for exclusives in order to compete and drive install base.

I just think that Sony is too different from Nintendo to be considered a rival. Sure, they are a competitor, but they compete on very different terms whereas Nintendo and Sega competed against each other identically, and thus were rivals.

So...just because Sony lacks a platforming Mascot they are the devil...?

"They are so different in style from Nitnendo and Sega that they shouldn't be considered a rival."

That was my original point that I was trying to explain.

I can't really imagine Sony being seen as a rival to Nintendo. That would mean that they would have to be like what Flintheart Glomgold was to uncle scrooge, or what Dark Link is to Link. Sega was like a 'dark' Nitnendo, Sony isn't. They're a competitor, nothing more.

Since OP said don't hold back, and I have already posted so much of my opinion I might as well reveal that I consider them to be the common enemy that Nintendo and Sega should have seen coming. I hate the fact that their arrival ruined the awesome pepsi-coke rivalry that Nintendo and Sega had. The 16-bit era was perfect, there was noo need for anything to change. Since they came, console gaming changed, focus was placed on mature themes, and in game stories, and the console libraries changed into looking just like PC libraries. When I was a kid and looked at the PS1 library in stores, all I saw was computer games that didn't work on a computer. I hate all of those changes.

That is my uneducated, biased opinion, but that was not the point I was trying to make, all of the long discussion posts earlier originate from me trying to explain why I don't consider Sony to be Nintendo's rival.