Do people realize it's almost impossible to kill a douopoly console? (SONY/MS/XBox One)

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

fatslob-:O said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

Here we go again:

Out of the three links you posted, only one of them was relevant to the OG, and it showed that 360 lost more money than the OG did, it just made more profits as well, but that doesn;t help your argument when your trying to put the blame of the xbox divsion being in the red on the OG Xbox.

It still ties in to your point about how gaining market share is supposed about sacrifice but guess what ? The PS1 was Sony's first attempt and they didn't lose money! It makes no difference whether the the xbox or xbox 360 lost more money. All that matters is that there still in the red after all those YEARS. 

NIntendo's consoles have been declining since the NES, with the exception of the Wii which is a verifiyable fad, every single Nitendo console has sold less than its predecessors. To claim that the decline started with the GC is completely ignoring the previous generations.

@Bold This is nothing but worthless hack and drivel of an analysis on your part. What's the point in catering to a declining market such as the PS360 when it limits the potential of gaming ? You can't say that the WII was a fad when nintendo's output of quality software has diminished signifcantly. 

Backwards compatiblity isn't an influence? It should be obvious how this is a blantant fallacy. You can't prove your point, while I have been providing real evidence that cleary contradicts your claims.

You have yet to prove shit. Being backwards compatible has nothing to do with the consoles philosphical representation. 

If it doesn't matter that they where peripherals on the PS2, then the Dreamcast would be responsible for the features. The fact is the PS2 slim did not have these options avaliable. It doesn't matter that the PS2 and Dreamcast supported it, the Xbox mandated it. Every single model of the xbox has hdd and online capability. That is indisputable. Furthermore, every console afterwards has released with online and hdd. Everything else you mentioned is not standard. 

Once again it doesn't matter if the PS2 slim didn't support it or not. The fact is YOU CAN'T CLAIM that it was the original xbox who set these standards when it's failure that wasn't adopted by the main stream. 

@Bold You just proved that you can't read. Did the WII  and the WII U have an HDD ? 

Where is the Wii's marketshare? You know the one that is driving the potential of gaming because the PS/360 marketshare is declining? Both the Wii and the Wii U have analogs of HDD, semantically flash memory != disk memory, but you're just grasping here. You keep trying to prove absolutes when you are conflicting with the very defnitions of the terms you are using. Backwards Compatibility is an influence, indisputable. What does a the difference in philosophy b/w Wii and GC have to do with the specs of the system? The mere fact that the GC exists and the Wii is backwards compatible with it is an influence.

Clearly, you fail to understand the difference between an option and a mandate. It doesn't matter if the consumer mainstream didn't buy a Xbox. The 360 didn't have WW 2nd place. The manufacturers all adopted the industry standard. That is why its standard.