Is the day of unique consoles mostly over?

[mjk45]

Jumpin said:

KLXVER said:

Has anyone ever released a unique console except for Nintendo? I mean Sega, Sony, MS and Atari consoles seems pretty by the numbers. Except maybe the Sega Pico or whatever it was called...

Sega’s Saturn and Dreamcast were unique, the PlayStation and PS2 just happened to clone them and have more usable features, a better price, and better marketing and third party relations.

Nintendo tends to be at its best when it’s not trying to align with other console manufacturers (particularly Gamecube) - because they end up coming off like the kiddy/junior version of the original. NES, Gameboy, DS, Wii, and Switch all went against the current and discovered new oceans. Of course, once in a while they accidentally land in a smaller lake (N64), or travel up shit creek (Virtual Boy and Wii U).

Regardless, I buy every Nintendo console. But most Nintendo fans don’t, and will be fine skipping whole generations. Look at guys like Mike Matei who is still a fanatical NES/SNES guy.

Interesting take on the subject especially with PlayStation cloning the Saturn when the Saturn did a 11th hour change to it's CPU design making it a dual CPU setup when it got wind of the PS1's 3D capabilities.