Will the Nintendo hatedom go down after the Switch reveal?

[Ljink96]

pray4mojo said:

Ljink96 said:

It also had a ton of tech gimmicks too. There's a balance if Nintendo wants to do another PS4 clone. And there was really nothing on the SNES's level in the 90's. There was only 1 powerful home console that had popularity at the time and it was the SNES. Now we have 2 of the exact same console on the market, and I really don't want another one.  The argument is definitely there but I don't think it'll be the success that everybody thinks it will. 

The Genesis and SNES were the same console. They were the PS4 and Xbox One of the early 90's. When the SNES released, it was basically an NES on steroids. It was vanilla in so much as it simply followed the Genesis's blue prints which in turn, followed the NES's blue prints. It didn't do or attempt to do what the Wii or Wii U did. It was chasing the red ocean, not the blue one.

The SNES outclassed the Genesis in every way possible. Except for clock speed. But the SNES had FX chips to combat this if necessary. They weren't the same. They didn't share the same huge 3rd party games like PS4 and Xbox One do today. You wouldn't have Final Fantasy VI on SNES and Genesis like you have FFXV on PS4 and Xbox One. The Genesis would butcher the colors due to its limited on screen color capability.  The sound was garbage for the most part, etc. The only thing I'm trying to say I guess, is that the market has changed since the 90's. Simply making another vanilla console to compete today isn't going to work. Especially when there's 2 of the same console already on the market. Even if you do say SNES and GEN were the same (which they really aren't) it was still only 2 consoles competing. There was a third, turbografx, and it bombed. The market was too crowded.