A fans, why do you hate B so much?

[Immortal]

SxyxS said:

Immortal said:
I hate Sony and MS because I dislike what they bring to the industry (higher prices, less reliable hardware, excessive focus on graphics, etc.) and think that a Nintendo monopoly would be better for everyone.

monopoles are always bad for the consumer.

Standard Oil has proven this,microsoft also and nintendo treated 3rd parties like shit with their(almost) nes/snes monopole-forcing 3rd parties to produce the cartridges  by nintendo selling their games to higher prices than nintendo.

that's why square turned away from nintendo,that's why codemasters sued nintendo.

that's why nintendo games are a lot cheaper now than they were in the 80ies and 90ies though developing costs exploded,beceause there is no more nintendo monopol

Without monopol i can choose  between  candy style ugly graphics/ great gameplay,bad hardware,no dvd,bad internet(nintendo) or great graphics /great gameplay(not nintendo)+blu ray +great internet infrastructure,and 3rd parties can sell their games and earn money on other systems as nintendo fans are incredibly ignorant and only buy nintendo stuff(great rayman 3ds sold 10k,mario 3ds =5mio )

 

btw-i hope Wii U will survive.If Nintendo moves to other plattforms they may wipe away most 3rd publishers and the only games left on ps360 will be:shooters,candy style games and ea sports games.

Not in the video game industry. Until the DS, Nintendo had no significant competition in the handheld market, but they still produced cheap hardware and lots of appealing games. Fact of the matter is, with video games, Nintendo can't afford to abuse a monopoly by raising the price sky high or forcing consumers to do stuff because people can choose to leave gaming completely. There's always an incentive to make the most appealing stuff possible because you can always get more customers.

This is completely different from a market like oil, where people can't just stop using it because the price is too high and reducing the price is nearly useless because everyone already needs oil. In this case, competition is necessary. In the case of an entertainment industry, not so much.

Also, sure, Nintendo did some stuff in the NES/SNES days that wasn't ideal for third parties. But back then, considering that they were coming off the video game crash, third parties definitely needed to be kept on a leash. I'm sure Nintendo would adjust its policies if it had that much power today.