happydolphin said:
As I said, Nintendo was interested in CD tech, and that would have been their direction had Sony not blocked them. Do you get what I mean? Sure, Sony brought in some multimedia gimmicks, but who cares about those, not gamers. Those are "good-to-haves", things to draw appeal but are a side-dish, gimmicks. The PSX is the Super CD Nintendo would have built had Sony not tried to screw them from the backdoor. Who knows where Nintendo would have been by now had that not happened? But anyways, to blame was Yamauchi himself, who became much too arrogant for his own good. At first his arrogance was his success after he got rid of almost all his father's prospective successors, but when it came to 3rd parties and people with who you needed to play fair, he got a good lesson I think he never forgot, and helped Nintendo swallow a good dose of humble pie. Now it's Sony's turn. Natural evolution my friend, or what you would call the law of "What goes around comes around". |
Multimedia isn't a gimmick, it isn't a novelty. It's a product people actually make use of on a daily basis and Sony and Microsoft knew it would take over the home eventually because thats the evolution of tech. If thats a gimmick then so is a home computer, Blackberry, Ipod, tablets and things like that. People seriously use in their house and have actual use. I haven't bought a stand-alone Blu Ray because of the PS3 even though its old, it still works and I can put my files on it from my computer. Gimmicks need to prove themselves in a market, gaming consoles once real tech companies joined the gaming industry were always meant to evolve.
-Nintendo always came out with gimmicks and family friendly games.
-Sony came with tech and formats.
-Microsoft came with online.
The biggest evolution
Blu Ray increased the disc capacity of games and movies beyond that of a DVD which you would eventually have to swap. (Mass Effect3's disc swapping was f'n annoying...just saying)
