totalwar23 said:
starcraft said:
Kasz216 said:
It's never been about the specs. Even back with the NES.
The Sega Mega Drive was a failure in Japan because of the NES. The thing was dead in Japan before the SNES ever came out. Japan, you've got to have the goods upfront.
Ironically the Genisis was the HD console of it's era. As even then the other companies tried to paint Nintendo as kiddy... partially due to Nintendo backing down to the senators, while Sega kept it bloody and invented terms like "Blast Processing" to suggest the Mega Drive was way more impressive. The whole thing worked... with the teen audience. But failed elsewhere... and eventually the SNES prevailed in America. Sega I believe captured the undeveloped Europeon market though. Europe's never really been Nintendo land. |
I agree. I think MikeB believes that the slimmest of processor advantages over the Xbox 360 is going to result in some sort of enormous eleventh hour boost for the PS3 to the detriment of Microsoft and Nintendo, but making this assumption belays everything we know about how the industry works and the success-breeds-success principle.
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What, that's not what he told me. According to him, the PS3 will win because it's on a ten year plan and by the time the next generation consoles will come out, the PS3 will hold an advantage over those more powerful consoles due to being cheaper to develop for (due to its lower specs) and having a higher install base but the PS3 won't be harmed by the Wii because people want more powerful consoles to play more technically impressive games. Go ahead and read his posts, that's what I got from him.
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The question is... why would they? Why would Nintendo release another console if Sony hasn't? It kinda seems like the Wii is going to end up being the NES all over again. They aren't going to bother replacing it until it needs to be replaced.
Which would be either when Sony releases a new console or the new Xbox becomes successful. Which would defeat Sony's point either way.
I mean, it's all explained up their mostly. The Mega Drive wasn't a big hit in America because it was higher specced. It was a big hit because their advertising campaign convinced America it was the "Cool" system. That's not going to work of a system that's been out 5+ years.
Had Sega not done so and the Master System failed... Nintendo probably would of rode the NES even longer then it did. A strategy like that... where their is no PS4 in 5-6 years just gives microsoft a big advantage. Eventually PS3 will be forced to move.
