Soundwave said:
That just shows that Sony/MS were burning through money and throwing money around to get ahead. XBox was horribly designed hardware from a cost POV that was bleeding huge amounts of cash that even Microsoft said "uh no, this has to stop". Sony was just weaseling 3rd parties into exclusivity contracts. You can see then why Nintendo went "fuck this bullshit" and didn't want to be part of that continuing pissing match. What were they supposed to do, lose $200 a console like MS was and go bankrupt ala Sega or get into a bidding war for every major third party game with both Sony and MS. They made a great piece hardware with the GameCube, far better than the PS2 while being cheaper than the PS2, easier to program for, and essentially all that effort was for basically no gain. Nowadays this kind of thing wouldn't fly either because there's much more retail stock investors that watch financial returns like a hawk, so if you're bleeding tons of money, share prices can immediately be hit, back then I think companies like MS and Sony had more cover to waste shit tons of money and kinda be given a pass for it. You don't really see Sony being willing to take big losses on hardware anymore for example. |
You seem overly defensive of all things Nintendo and make a lot of silly comments.
Sony was not burning money with the ps2, they were making millions of dollars.
The ps2 had a superior lineup, it is OK for Nintendo not to be the best all the time.
The larger point is the ps2 was the weakest hardwsre but the best option that gen. Power doesn't mean much without software.
