How can Nintendo compete with the big dawgs?

[STRYKIE]

MDMAlliance said:

STRYKIE said:

MDMAlliance said:

STRYKIE said:

They've certainly had a lot to answer for on that respective front since the N64 though. Keyword there, since, not after.

Not entirely sure what you mean. Who are "they?"  Nintendo?  Sony? Microsoft?  A combination of the three?  Answer to what?  Respective to what?  Being big?  

Nintendo, I would've thought that was self-explanatory. Respective to falling far behind the heights of industry growth mustered by their competitors. 

It isn't self-explanatory when I don't know what the rest of your sentence meant either.  I could only guess that maybe it was Nintendo because you said N64, but I couldn't make out what "answer" was supposed to mean here.  Anyway, on topic, Nintendo is still much bigger than Sony and Microsoft in gaming.  While hardware sales on Nintendo's front have fluctuated, Nintendo is still very powerful on the software front (which is arguably better to have).

It's also better to have powerful software relations first and foremost so that the would-be incentive software to buy the system doesn't end up going under the radar, or ends up with Gamecube-like consistency if relations with 2nd and 3rd party partners backfire (Rare and Capcom).