| oniyide said: i agree with the first paragraph, but where are the examples of MS and Sony hurting the industry? 2nd bolded, interesting, i didnt know the Sony thing was that far back. And your right about philips that sucked, but i still dont understand why they just didnt go it ALONE. Sega CD and 3do did and failed, but they arent Ninty i would have imagined that Ninty would have done better. But even when they did, it wasnt all that. Hell they even made statements saying that cartridges were still the best way to go, which IMHO means they were never fully commited to the CD format in th first place 3rd bolded anyone who knows my posting histroy knows i love the GC, better than Wii i have no hate for mini discs, but they COULD not hold as much information as a DVD, which lead to some games having to have levels cut from them. So your paying the same price for the game as PS2 Xbox and you are getting less content.(not always the case) you tell me how this was better for us |
It was in my very first statement. The premature Bluray thing. It hurt the industry in as many ways as possible. I don't even need examples, though. It's common sense. Companies only see what's good for them and that goes for Nintendo, too. Sony and MS have other priorities. Nintendo doesn't.
The reason they didn't during N64 was likely because, until then, they'd been trying with Sony and Philips. If they tried on their own just after that, it would be rushed and end up as bad or worse than the Sega CD. And, after being forced by these circumstances not to go the CD route, do you think Nintendo would praise its competition for having CDs? Hell no. They had to try and convince everyone else that CDs were worthless so that the PS1 scenario wouldn't happen (which it did).
For your third point, I refer you to RolStoppable's post.
As for your other points, Wii's online may be "weak sauce", but I've already explained why Nintendo didn't bother. Blame the competition here, :P. And, for GBA's competition, sure, there were some companies who tried, but, since they didn't affect Nintendo's decisions in the least, they're irrelevant. By the end of the generation, it was more of a monopoly than almost any situation in gaming has ever been.
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