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S.T.A.G.E. on 03 July 2012
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happydolphin said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

It is not a gimmick on a videogame company. DVD's were the natural evolution for formats ever since we went to CD's. The Saturn used it, The Dreamcast used it, PC's used it. DVD's became the norm on the PS2 and the Xbox. CD's were getting ripped online and people would pirate. What would you expect Sony to do if they stuck with CD's?  

The Wii mote isn't practical. Nintendo went back to a controller as simplee as that.

You're mixing two things up. The DVD format is suitable for media capacity for gaming software, but I already told you Yamauchi was inclined on optical media until Sony got in the way. The DVD-Playback, however, is a gimmick as it is a novelty injected into the Playstation (much like the gyroscopes on the Wii) to attract consumers. It had nothing to do with gaming. For a gaming console that's a gimmick. For an entertainment system, it's a value-add.

So, in the end, the evolution you were talking about was bullocks, and the crazy thing about it is that it is the pillar of your worldview when it comes to the world of gaming. Microsoft > Sony (or the other depending on the mood) > Nintendo, when I just proved to you that Nintendo wanted to go high-end, much like they did with the N64 (it was more powerful than the Playstation I might add), but Sony got in the way and double-crossed them.

So, where's the evolution now? Especially when I emphasized that 3rd parties made Sony breathe during the 6th gen, your evolution is more like an infancy while Nintendo was a fully formed adult, was so ever since they entered the console business (as their 1st party offerings on the NES can prove).


Read this...

http://www.psuni.com/sony-we-legitimized-gaming-4075/

You are free to disagree but facts are facts. This is my last post. I have better things to do that argue for an hour over whether a format is a gimmick.