Just thinking, will there be a Nintendo monopoly again like it did in NES?

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disolitude said:

celine said:

 

No bad in general. Nintendo stoppped to grow the market and started a bitter and empity war against Sega using pathetic marketing campaign revolt toward teens. There was many great games at that time ( Snes best console ever ) but problem with 3rd party weren't never truly addressed and both Sega and Nintendo were severly damaged.

Ironically Genesis was Sega msot ppular console but also the beginning of the end for Sega Enterprise itself.

With Snes Nintendo proved to not understand the marke at that time, its blind mentality caused the company demise.

The general rule is that grow the market is good, competing is bad.

 

Nintendo ha no choice but fight that war as they got their butts handed to them in 1992 and 1993 due to snes being viewed as a slower childrens console by the teen population who were the main videogame buyers at the time. No blood in Mortal Kombat and inferior sports games didn't help either...

I agree that market growth is good for everyone but industry growth can backfire as well. Look at 3do, philips CDI and all multimedia systems that came out in early 90's. They were trying to expand the market and failed due to genesis and Snes domination.

Well in the US. In japan the Gensis never got off the ground and got annihlated by the NES.

It really was pure marketing.  They had a different strategy in Japan and it failed.  They put a new guy in charge for the US release and pulled it off well.

Though Nintendo played into their hands early on with their early sensoring too.