Hypothetically, what if Sony dominates?

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STRYKIE said:

Turkish said:

Suke said:

Turkish said:

Suke said:
It will be boring and bad for the industry, remember back in the nineties, Nintendo had 85% of the gaming market......yeah, let that sink in.

Were you around in the 90s? Nintendo never dominated the console market in the 90s,  first half was a close race between SNES and Megadrive, the 5th gen was dominated by the PS1 which sold 3x as much as N64.

Dude, Nintendo own 85% of the market in the early 90's, and I'm not bragging about their success, I was explaining why it could be bad for a company to fully dominated a market. Nintendo was brutal how to control the market and made it impossible for other electronic companies to reach Nintendo success level. Only one that came fully close was Sega. 

Thanks to Nintendo's formal President, Hiroshi Yamauchi, (god bless his soul), he was part of the reason why the Playstation became what it is today. I want all three companies (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft) and the industry as a whole to do well, none of this one domination childish bullsh*t.

Are you delusional or just trying to stay ignorant to the facts? Do you know the marketshare of Genesis vs SNES?

Nintendo	Super Nintendo Entertainment System	1990	49.10 million[3][10][11]
Atari	Atari 2600	1977	40 million[12]
Sega	Genesis (Mega Drive)	1988	29-35 million[cn 1]

Does that look 85 percent to you? If so, you suck at maths and go back to school. When PlayStation came out in the 2nd half of the 90s Sony dominated the market, PS1 sold 3x as much as n64 and 10x as much as Saturn. Nintendo never dominated any market before the Wii and they're about to lose that title to the PS3.

To be fair, I think he might of meant right at the start of the 90's, like, before the Mega Drive/Genesis truly found it's feet with Sonic, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, and it hadn't been released in PAL terrortories where Sega actually had the edge in market share.

By the early 90s Sonic 2 had been released with 3 soon to follow, the MD had already been on sale over a year in Japan when the snes launched, Nintendo were the ones playing catchup in the early 90s its only in the mid to late 90s that the Snes started selling more, and overall the total sales are mainly because the Snes was still being sold when Sega all but abandoned the MD in favor of the saturn in late 1994 - md was discontinued globally by 1999m where as snes was discontinued globally in 2003. theres a two year gap between Sega phasing out the MD and Nintendo releasing the N64 too.

All in all it was a very complex generation, mistakes were made by both parties, but neither manufacturer dominated either, at any point during that generation, despite having overall higher number of shipped units, the MD actually outsold it in the US and some other territories.

As for NES, the 6 to one domination over the master system was largely down to the master system having very few games, very few arcade titles (at the time arcades were huge and the prospect of playing those games at home was a major win for nintendo), there just wasnt much of a push from Sega in marketing or really getting behind the master system either, nothing like the release of their next console, which was the first time Nintendo truly had any serious competition in the marketplace, and they haven't dominated the home console market since, all the way up until the Wii, and even then, despite impressive sales, it currently holds only a 7.7% market share lead over the PS3, in which case you can say "Its leading" but "Dominating" would be debatable.

I'm not bashing Nintendo of course, just keeping things in perspective.