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potato_hamster on 17 February 2017
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SegataSanshiro said:
potato_hamster said:

The home console market was still in it's infancy? That seems odd considering the famicom came out 11 years after the release of Pong.Nintendo was on it's third home console by the time the Playstation was released. By that same logic, I suppose the handheld market was still in it's infancy when Sony released the PSP *just* 15 years after the release of the gameboy in 1989, or does 4 years make all of the difference in the world, considering the DS was also Nintendo's third handheld? Either way, that's some fuzzy logic.

As for the PSP,  how on earth was the PSP a failure? How is selling 80 million systems being "left in the dust"?  It's ridiculous. Put the PSP up against the Gameboy Advance and Nintendo beats it by less than a million. Put it up against the 3DS, and the PSP "leaves it in the dust" as you so put it. The PSP cut into Nintendo's handheld market from day one as well, it's just that the DS sold extraordinarily well despite the PSP making a massive dent in it.

PS. Gunpei Yokoi, was the legendary mastermind behind the Gameboy as well as the Virtual Boy. It just goes to show that even legends can have bad ideas. Besides, is Gunpei Yokoi's philosophy of "lateral thinking with withered technology" actually seen today in devices like the Switch? The technology behind the Switch certainly hasn't matured, it isn't well understood, and this definitely, definitely isn't a new way of using the technology as we've seen by patents and devices that have utilized this technology in similar ways years before the Switch was conceived. But hey, I guess they kinda did apply it with the 3DS considering the 3D feature of the 3DS was so underwhelming and disliked Nintendo actually made a version of the 3DS that came without it. So there's that.

Again SNES was no juggernaut. NES was. SNES was not. Genesis was beating Nintendo for a little while and PC Engine was rocking it in japan,Both cut deep deep into Nintendo so yes 6 years own the console market. SNES only started to pull ahead when SEGA blundered with CD and 32X. Pong clones were not real consoles unless you count plug n play systems and Tiger Handhelds as the real thing as well. You think time is the only factor. Wrong. Odyssey was a a square dt=ot on a screen with overlays. Atari and Coleco and Intellvision had no standards between console hardware and game design and how you control them. Even in NES era that stuff was just begining to come together. So yes NES is still in console infancy,NES gave us standards in hardware game design and how you control the game. I never said PSP wa sa failure but it was still left in the dust by 154 million DS sold. So it was still a distant last place. Also if you think just adding more power will one day work.

Good luck to that. Some Colin Moriaty logic there. Facts speak for themselves. 28 years Nintendo has dominated the handheld market because everyone else has taken the same approach, add more power. There is good reason Nintendo handhelds always own the market. They keep it within reach and add just enough to make it new. They know how to balance it.

 

Also I will say it again. I like my PSP and Vita more than my DS and 3DS but facts are facts. No one has or ever will beat them if they take the same approach that has failed for 30 years. I am done with this convo because you can't dispute the facts so not bothering with this topic after this.

I would respond this comment but all I'll say is that I clicked on your youtube channel, and watched two videos. So, I can no longer take anything you say seriously. You can insult me or my enjoyment of the guys of Kina Funny all you like, but it all pales in comparison to watching you rap. Have a good life.