PlayStation created the Industry, Xbox changed the playing field

[Dr.Henry_Killinger]

CladInShadows said:

Dr.Henry_Killinger said:

prayformojo said:

First off, you weren't even ALIVE when I was playing the NES in 1986, so...there's that.

Why is that relevant to my argument?

And secondly, which game set the standard for console 3D gameplay again? Mario 64 did you say? But how? If the PS1 gave birth to the modern era, that shouldn't be.

That has nothing to do with what I'm saying and have said.

The modern console industry starts with the NES. 

The industry that the NES had is now outdated. Nintendo is the last of its kind, a game developer with a console, the other two aren't primarily thus the 3rd parties have become a lot more important than in the NES era. This is why Nintendo has a hard time competing for the traditional home console market space. The only concern of this thread is the new PS era, or if that is to much for you to bear you can feel free to call it the era of Multiplatforms

 

The Nintendo of today is NOT the Nintendo of the NES/SNES era. I think that may be one of the flaws in your argument. In Gen 3, Nintendo had a ton of third party support.  Mainly because it was really the only game in town.  But during Gen 4, it faced healthy competition from Sega, and a few of the other consoles that popped up at the time, like the Turbo Grafx, 3DO, Jaguar, etc. But they still had a lot of third party support.  There were multiplatform games in Gen 4. Quite a few of them.

In understand what you're trying to say in your argument.  I even agree with some of it.  The industry that exists today is very little like the industry of the late 80s and early 90s. But it's a natural evolution.  I would argue that the biggest change came from gen 6 to gen 7, honestly. The era of publishers taking no risks, and developers going out of business.

Some things you and others say just reek of ignorance due to you not being there at the time. You let current Nintendo influence how you perceive the Nintendo of old.

The stuff I was ignorant about, I didn't mention.

You're right.

However, the only purpose of this analysis is to assess why the PS4, X1, and WIi U are performing as such. The traditonal market as it stands has requirements that the Wii U has problems meeting. When 3rd party is actively dropping the system mid development, and the burden is so strenous, perhaps this is indictave of market addressal. That's what I'm suggesting.