| snyps said: how long did atari last as the no. 1 earner? |
They owned the home videogame market from the late 70s until the crash of the early 1980s that took out everyone. Even at the bottom, they still sold like 1 million 2600 systems. I still have visions of a guy going into to buy a 2600 at Toys R Us instead of an NES. They were also king of the arcades to from when Pong went out until the same period of the crash.
Pretty much though, what you saw with Atari is the norm. Some console dominates on top, then the maker stops dominating. There are individuals too young to remember this, who ended up presuming that Sony would be on top forever, and the Playstation brand being THE brand. In this, individuals who don't know this history get a bad case of hubris.
With about every time here, something comes along that people don't see, and disrupts the order of things, just as the Wii did. Now you are seeing the smart device market playing the role home computers had in the past, and could put a big hurt on things.
