You said Nintendo didn't have any competition when they were marketleader, you can't argue that the Genesis did well outside of japan and was a threat to Nintendo.
Yes true Genesis did great outside Japan but in Japan it sucks that is why I call it no concurrention for Nintendo.
You are right, without the japanese market you cannot become #1 as the Genesis has proven, no matter how good you are doing elsewhere in the world. The only system that will be successful in japan in this generation is the Wii. A big indicator why the Wii will win this generation.
Euhm that is way to early to call it a victory the first year of PS and PS2 sucks to :(.
Probably less than 10 %, pretty much still the same now. Most people don't read print magazines or check online reviews for games nor do they care for sales numbers. What's your point about people knowing sales numbers anyway?
I didn't care about the sales number but my post was about the life time of the nintendo consoles the most
people did not now how long a console lived then. This days the most people know when a new console
release even my nephew who is 5 years old was talking about "I want the
revilitation" (Revolution but he could not pronounce it).
What do you mean by 6 competitions?
You said that Fifa haves more licences than PES but FIFA 06 haves the same licences as the PES 6.
This big difference is exactly the reason why the Wii will get a lot of exclusives and why most publishers will start to ignore 360 and PS3 ports, unless those games are FPS, sports, racing.
Not if MS and Sony will pay developpers to make them and Sony haves many companies and for Sony it is not only about games it is also about Blu Ray. The MGS movie will be also exclusive for Blu Ray. So they hope people will buy an PS3 to watch the movie and even buy games on it.
Microsoft paid Mistwalker to make Blue Dragon for the 360, so it wasn't a financial risk for Mistwalker to make this game. Microsoft paid all the marketing costs for Epic's Gears of War, that's why the game only cost $10 million for Epic. MS paid a lot for marketing that's why they tried to charge money for the additional multiplayer maps of Gears, to get more money back from their investment. The other exclusives you are talking about are financed mostly or completely by Microsoft themselves.
Paying for exclusive 3rd party content is expensive and makes it hard for the console manufacturer to become profitable, see Microsoft. The better solution to get exclusive games is a huge userbase which makes it unnecessary for 3rd parties to port their games over to other platforms.
MS is getting a lot of money really especially with the content of GEOW. They have made profit it for sure and so will Sony with their extra content and for extra home content.
Sorry, I missunderstood that point. Sony probably saw little of a threat from Sega's Dreamcast and probably also thought that Nintendo would launch their successor to the N64 in 2000. They knew the headstart over Nintendo paid of before with the PSone, so they tried to pull off the same strategy again which worked well as we all know.
Nintendo won't start the next generation, because they will want to make as much money from the Wii as possible before introducing a new platform. You should also notice that the graphics race is over now. Increasing just the horsepower won't do it anymore for a new system to become marketleader. The new strategy should be to make the gaming experience better, not only the visuals.
So whoever wants to challenge Nintendo, better has some good, innovative ideas. And Nintendo themselves to
So if Sony did a headstart (also when their console still sold a lot more than N64) why would Nintendo not do it? True about the innovation part Wii did it X360 did it with Xbox live and Sony is doing it: Home, EYE OF JUDGEMENT, If sony can take an license of a new popular card game and release it on their eye of Judgement it even can be a new standard for card tournaments.
Sony is fighting two wars the generation first just game console war and the HD war (Blu Ray).
They are losing maybe money with their games at the moment but they are winning again money back with their Blu Ray. With that money they can make another games and attach more gamers.
Hehe love this discussions :).
