Do you ever wish the console wars were closer?

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Superman4 said:

SegataSanshiro said:

If you win by a landslide or are winning by a landslide's easy to get arrogant and complacent.

SEGA and Nintendo kept one another on their toes and that console gen is still regarded as the best console war ever. Look at WWF vs WCW. WCW creates NWO and has a more adult look to WWF more family friendly program. This forces WWF to create the Attitude era. To this day regarded as some of the most entertaining stuff WWE ever did. WCW goes out of business and for more than a decade no one has come close to challenging them. They have been so complacent. PPV numbers dropped off and live crowds not showing up nearly as much and ratings setting record lows last I checked a couple years ago.  We need Xbox and Nintendo and Sony to keep one another on their toes to strive to be better. When Sony says fuck anyone who wants cross platform play. They are saying we are No 1, what can you do about it? Nintendo got arrogant after SNES and Wii. Sony did after PS2. What happened next was a disaster. 

WWE bought WCW and killed it.

Thanks Sherlock. Except WCW was losing money for years. Once Time Warner merged with AOL new execs got in charge. Eric had investors to buy the company but AOL/Time Warner didn't want t pay the TV deals anymore. So instead of the couple hundred million, Eric had to buy it, WWE bought it for 4, million because the TV deal would not come with it and not have those insane huge contracts of the bigger stars like Hogan,Sting,Nash and Hall. They were still under contract with Time Warner even tho WCW had new ownerhip. WCW would have stuck around longer but they made some key mistakes. They stuck to the same formula of NWO and milked it beyond it's worth. Didn't develop enough younger stars. Besides the whole point is the Monday Night Wars are looked at fondly because for a few short years Wrestling changed for the better. Why? Because one company challenged who was leading the way but the one who was leading the way thought the idea like Gobelty Gooker was a good use of Hector Guerrero's talents and think it would have been a good character.  WCW aimed to be more adult and less cartoonish (with exceptions like Yeti & Glacier) WWF had no choice but to respond with more adult programming as well. If WCW came up with new ideas instead of just milking nWo and developed new stars as they had a Young Chris Jericho, Chris Benoit and Eddie plus more.They could have kept that momentum longer and the AE era may have lasted a few more years. Point is, competition is good.