An actual well informed gaming article on the console war

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xenogears1234 said:

Intrinsic said:

Aquietguy said:

(face plam) A console for gamers first. So Nintendo made a console for gamers second?

so why are gamers ignoring the system? 

Lets be honest nintendo stopped trying to compete along time ago.  All they care about is selling enough to turn a profit, and survive its why their systems have weaker specs and rely heavier on 1st than 3rd party software.  Unfortuantely for nintendo in terms of competing (especially against sony) that hasnt worked out so well the last 20 years in terms of being the industry leader they once were prior to sony's arrival.

Except that Nintendo isn't turning in profit, which is the bad part here (then again, this forces Nintendo to do something about it). Consoles have always had "weaker specs", at least those who wish to continue to next generation, as making losses have destroyed nearly every company - which is what happened with SCE too that was discontinued and Playstation was put under other division a couple of years back.