Do Nintendo and Microsoft fans like each other?

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KungKras said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

enditall727 said:

kain_kusanagi said:

By "everything" I am talking about all the third party devs that made the Genesis popular. Sony's Playstation became THE 3rd party platform. Publishers could make all their money on Playstation without having to port to anything. If the Playstation never existed the 32bit gen would have looked a lot like the 50/50 split of the 16bit gen.

but weren't most of those 3rd party games also available on Nintendo aswell though?

 

I always thought that Saturn failed because of the hardware compared to the PlayStation.

Look up the fall of Sega and you will find theres line of reasons from  internal instability to stability to the launch of the Saturn to relationships with retailers and third party as to why Sega had issues with the Saturn, scrapped it and eventually fell after the Dreamcast. Hardware was only one of the reasons but for the major part they fixed most of the issues with the Dreamcast outside of the piracy issue.

You still don't get it.

It doesn't matter if the retialers were pissed off! It doesn't matter if the Saturn was hard to program! If the PSX didn't exist, third parties would have HAD to make games for the Saturn if they wanted to make CD based console games, thus it would have sold better and retailers would have HAD to stock it. Hell, the PSX is the reason why Sega did the early launch, so no PSX, no pissed off retailers. What will it take for you to get it through your head?

Incorrect, if the PSX didnt exist Nintendo would've STILL had a stranglehold on third parties and Sega still would've struggled. Sega failed of their own issues, not because of the competition. Sega Japans biggest offense was not allowing a larger entity to buy them out and fund their hardware development. Sony didnt take third parties from Sega....they ended Nintendos dominant hold on third party. 32X was a mistake, the Saturn was a failure and the Dreamcast though one of my favorite consoles was sadly doomed to fail. It was just one mistake after another. The only bright spot Sega has outside of the objective greatness that was the Dreamcast was the Genesis which was their only majorly successful console.

P.S.

You're correct about Sega jumping the gun and launching the Saturn on short notice to limited retailers to beat Sony to the market though.