| MikeB said: @ ALKO nintendo is leading again evolution in gaming world IMO depends on how you look at it. In terms of current sales and market hype they do and the Wii-mote is a pretty innovative idea (although I would prefer a virtual reality solution at some point). The Gameboy destroyed the competition, but not due to hardware specs, more through good marketing and some additive high profile games like Tetris and Super Mario games which kids love. However for me personally I thought the original Gameboy was too bulky, too much lacking colors (shades of black & white) and did not offer enough game varierty. Similarly the NES and Snes outperformed the much more expensive low-end Amigas existing next those consoles, but personally overall I preffered the A500's varierty of high quality games over the NES games. There's a huge gap in quality there, apart from a handful system sellers the Snes IMO also lacked game varierty compared to the Amiga 500 games library. Market performance is not only driven by technological advancements, for which the Amiga was clearly superior but also driven by marketing, exclusive games and entry price. |
amiga was like ps3 now...
we cannot consider amiga a console.
a console in something designed only to run games.
so in the end amiga and nes weren't on the same market.
I think people like the most a machine that make one thing the best way rather than a machine that make many things the average way.
I see companies like sony and microsoft trying to make people change this habit.
I think that nintendo can only be killed by pc not by a rival "semi-console".
(the reason both sony and microsoft speak about pc referring their consoles,they want englobe game market into general entertaimnet market)
in the end this is market they created.
nintendo needs rivals to make their "nintendo difference".
but like they said many times they simply don't care about others.
they design consoles and pads around games they want to make not around games people want.
this is the real difference and what many fan called "nintendo arrogance".
ps:
tetris and super mario are not kids games...
they are masterpieces in games history.
a so called "hardcore gamer" must have finished these two games...
