sorry guys but the biggest mistakes have to be the events that resulted in these 3:
Nintendo's fall
Sega's fall
Sony's fall
Sega lost most of their fanbase extremely quickly and lost tons of money. Sega is only a shell of what they used to be right now.
Nintendo lost 3rd parties and were left only with people wanting to play first party games (although they didn't lose money). This can't be first because Nintendo never lost money, and their software still sold very well despite losing 3rd party support.
Sony lost about a decade worth of profits, many exclusives, 3rd party support, were forced to get rid of BC because costs were too high etc.
-The virtual boy was bad but it didn't result in anything bad happening, the gameboy still continued to dominate and Nintendo was still profiting.
-RROD hasn't shown any terrible effects on software or hardware sales yet. It did cost microsoft 1 billion dollars, but if Microsoft didn't get the 1 year head start they would not be in the position they are in right now. Microsoft basically forced companies to make PS3 exclusives multi-platform because of the amazing software sales they had, that was thanks to the 1 year head start.
-Anybody putting the dreamcast up there is wrong, the dreamcast failed because of the mistakes Sega had made before the dreamcast, not after. The dreamcast was actually a step in the right direction for Sega after how badly the Saturn failed. If they would have built the saturn more like the dreamcast (more cost effective and easy to develop for) they would have been much more successful.
currently playing: Skyward Sword, Mario Sunshine, Xenoblade Chronicles X
