zorg1000 said:
Chris Hu said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
Chris Hu said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
Chris Hu said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
The OG Xbox was not part of a duopoly. It barely had any market share. |
It still had a lot more games in common with the PS2 then the Gamecube since it used the same type of media, despite being on the market two years less then the Gamecube.
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Still doesn't make it a duopoly when total SW sales paled in comparison to PS2's and it most major 3rd party releases were exclusive or timed exclusive to PS2.
The fact that it was only four years in the market before being axed is testament to this, not a point in its favor.
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Well the main reason it got axed early is because MS went into a bad business deal with NVIDIA if any one else would have made the GPU it would have been on the market a lot longer. In the US it did pretty good rest of the world not so much overall it still did better then the Gamecube and could have done a lot better then it, if it would have been on the market longer.
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The GC is irrelevant to my argument. Gen 6 was most definitely not a PS and Xbox duopoly.
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Maybe not where you lived but in the US the original X-Box was pretty popular and far from being a failure.
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North America hardware totals
PS2-53.65
Xbox-15.77
Gamecube-12.55
Even in America Xbox didnt do much better than Gamecube despite Halo being so huge, having the best online, most powerful, better 3rd party support and a build in HDD. It surely wasnt a duopoly as PS2 sold over 3x as many Xbox in America.
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You do realize that it was on the market two years less then the Gamecube due to a bad business deal between NVIDIA and MS. If both consoles would have been on the market for the same amount of time the gap would have been a lot bigger. Also the X-Box was always a lot more expensive and never had a $99US fire sale like the Gamecube had towards its end of it life cycle in the US.
