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Soundwave on 11 February 2015
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DEAD_ORIGINAL said:
Soundwave said:


Sega could've done everything right with the Dreamcast, they poured their heart and soul into that console, and people still wouldn't have bought it because they were hellbent on getting a PS2. That's all there was to it. 

A console is not like a soda brand where one day you can try Pepsi and the next day maybe you have a Coke or Sprite. 

People buy generally one console and that's their console for 5 years. A minority buy two consoles. Very few have more than that. 

In said scenario a perfectly good company can be forced out of the industry. You only need two good competitors to have healthy competetion in the market, three-four is unsustainble over time IMO. 


Yeah but like soda sometimes u feel like a coke or go for sprite one day or feel like a milkshake choice is good even if u only have one console least u have a choice we dont want a dictatorship.

Also Nintendo is kids games Sony boss yosp said this we need nintendo but for the love of god there next console needs a sensible controller and graphics near the others consoles.

Sometimes choice is overrated for consoles. 

I don't want four or five different disc formats for my movies (Blu-Ray is just fine). Even having two (Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD) was incredibly annoying. I don't need or want four or five different Netflix style services. 

Choice is alright, but at the same time a lot of good people at Sega lost their jobs and a lot of great franchises and a great company went under basically due to competetion. If something even remotely similar is Nintendo's fate -- meh. I'll take the alternative please. 

Besides really how would the situation I describe in the OP be really any different from the competetive market we have now? The Wii U is sure as fuck not competing against the PS4/X1 in any realistic way, and the Vita is a complete non-factor. The competetive balance would for the most part stay the same, Sony/Nintendo just benefit by gaining several advantages in this set up. 

You want Nintendo to basically make another PS5/XB2 level machine next time presumably with a similar controller ... but really, who is that good for? Does the market want a third "me too" console? I doubt developers want it (now they have to make three ports of each game instead of two), and I don't think it would be good for Nintendo either.