RolStoppable said:
Dante9 said:
The PS1, PS2 and PS4 didn't face strong competitors? Who would be a stronger competitor in the console gaming field than Sega, Microsoft and Nintendo? Sony has beaten them in multiple generations no less, so I would not be so quick to dismiss their achievements, although it seems to be the go-to excuse for people who just don't want to recognize Sony for what they have done. By the way, USA is not the whole world and we are talking about worldwide recognition here, not just the US. The PS3, even with Sony's stupid decisions, eventually squeezed into second place worldwide. The Wii of course was the winner, which according to your logic was due to not having strong competition. Others might say that the heated battle between Sony and MS was competition enough for anyone.
As for Japan, it has become portable land. Microsoft has never had any real presence there and it hasn't really slowed them down, it is not a significant market when it comes to worldwide sales of *home* consoles any more. The Switch is a different beast altogether, which complicates comparisons. It dips into both home and portable markets and I daresay that if it wasn't portable, it would be far less successful.
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Indeed, those PS consoles didn't face strong competitors. And yes, the Wii did not face strong competition either, hence why neither it nor its competitors are mentioned in the snippet I left in the box above.
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That's way too simplistic and just false. Sure, sometimes the competition makes less than optimal decisions and that can give you some leeway, but breaking into the console market as a new player against long time giants like Nintendo and Sega and then staying in the game gen after gen is never easy. Just look at all the burned out husks of failed consoles and forgotten brands that litter the road of gaming. Sony went with a crazy idea after the failed deal with Nintendo and they manged to pull it off against all odds. Microsoft managed to do it with their deep pockets, eating up enormous losses at first because they wanted their piece of the pie in the long run.
But hey, you tell yourself that there is no competition if you like.
