| RolStoppable said: I don't know about that. It looks like Nintendo is a lot more important in fending off "the threat of mobile gaming" because PlayStation just rolled over and died. Microsoft entering the home console business, who exactly is happy about that? PlayStation fans in particular seem to be most upset about that. Nintendo 64 games have aged better than PS1 and Saturn games, so I don't see how cartridges would have held back gaming. People may have been impressed by FMVs back then, but looking back now it's quite pitiful. Online gaming is behind a paywall, unlike on the PC, thanks to PlayStation. Yes, Microsoft started the paid subscription, but we have already established that PlayStation is the cause for Microsoft's entry. Nintendo and Sega tried to keep third parties in their place, so without PlayStation we might not be living in an age of overpriced DLC, ridiculously big patches and mindboggling special editions and preorder bonuses. When Sony made the PlayStation, they picked up Sega's strategy. That was first and foremost drawing people away from Nintendo (and since the Genesis did quite well in America, Sony extended that strategy to take Sega gamers too). It can be summed up as "Your first video game system was Nintendo (or Sega)? Aren't you too old for that by now? Their games are for kids. Come to us.", so if a company that relied on taking away consumers from other companies didn't enter, then the existing companies would have got to keep their consumers. Alternatively, you can look at it from the angle "What if PlayStation did go away? What would change?", and the answer is that games would simply move to other platforms and the gamers would follow. PlayStation isn't much more than a standardized platform for games, much like Steam is right now on the PC. If Steam went away, PC gaming would live on without batting an eye. |
-N64 games havent aged better, the console doesnt even support rgb output unlike the ps1 and saturn. Play them on your lcd tv and you will see for your self. And unlike both consoles the n64 has almost zero 2D/sprites type games. And the texture filter on the n64 is horrible. You can actually play your ps1 game on your ps2, turn off smoothging textures and play via component cables making the ps1 games look alot better than n64.
- sega had allready plans making online gaming to be payed, i made a dreamcast thread about it.
- what prove do you have dlc wouldnt be possible under sega or nintendo? I recall nintendo releasing pokemon blue, red and yellow on the gameboy, wasnt that dlc or maybe even worse? Sega was actually very cozy with EA thats why the megadrive got so many sports games. You can see the potential there.
- if playstation did go away you wouldnt see games being made like bloodborne, gravity rush, the last of us, tear away and many other games sponsored or devoloped by sony. And those are the newest games, there were countless games who were devoloped by sony or brought to life by their money and decisions. See namco, final fantasy and jrpgs in my other post.
Just because sony doesnt have a mascot or is milking its existing franchises over and over again doesnt mean they output less games than nintendo. This is what i like about sony, they dont need a mascot to make games. They always have something new in each generation. Segas downfall is also related about to their obsession with sonic over their other games. MS has now the same problems with Masterchief.
