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Do Nintendo and Microsoft fans like each other?

Yes 137 48.41%
 
No 78 27.56%
 
I'm gonna fuck with your poll so hard! 68 24.03%
 
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chapset on 12 December 2012

Not since the wii U launch



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ironmanDX on 12 December 2012

tonymarraffa said:

Yeah one of the most successful companys in history just decided one day let's get into a business to hurt a gaming company. They got into it to make profits unlike another company I won't mention who's arrogance has nearly made them bankrupt. As a gamer of 28 years and owner of every major gaming console of the last 30+ years I think I'll share my opinion because sometimes the shit that comes out of you mouth is pure childish. I have all three current gen systems and guess what as long as they all have great games I'm happy. And before you chime in with yeah Gears and Halo and Forza, that's ok because they're all Incredible games. That's not counting XBLA/XBIG and Multiplats. There are things I like about the Wii or Ps3 that I like more than on the 360 like Netflix streaming, Blu Ray Player/Upscaling, better D-Pad on PS3 or The better Platformers and Incredible Nintendo titles on Wii but I don't make multiple threads/posts about THE BIG MEANIE MICROSOFT TAKING THIS COMPANY'S MARKET SHARE OR CHEATING ITS CUSTOMER OR RAPING AND KILLING SMALL KITTENS. I Don't hate Sony I just really hate their and their fans ARROGANCE.

 


Well said from a wiser gamer than possibly all of us.

 

Hey, Nintendo fans.....

 

 

 

 

<3  



kain_kusanagi on 12 December 2012
S.T.A.G.E. said:
KungKras said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
 

Not true, Sony expanded the market.Sega consoles never sold that much to begin with when you look at the amount of consoles they've shipped from generation to generation. The Genesis was pretty much it for them and even that couldnt properly compete with Nintendo. Before Sony entered the console race home consoles were frowned upon and Nintendo dominated a console race that at best commanded ninety million consoles. When Sony entered the console race they increased the userbase to two hundred million consoles and solidified consoles in the media as potent multimedia electronics. Sony saught respect for gaming consoles,and gained the respect of the wealth of third parties at a staggering pace. Sega was in a downward spiral regardless of the existence of Sony. Nintendo was butchering Sega and Sony showed both how you create a dominant console and stay ahead of trends, because after all they were a hardware company. You pirate their format, they'll just make another one. Microsoft at that point was notified of Sonys market dominance and the increase in the size of the gaming market and saw the console industry as a visible threat to their multimedia dominance because of their then monopoly over PC OS and was talked into making a console to cut down Sonys marketshare.

If you think that all the 3rd party games that the PSX got but the Saturn didn't would have simply evaporated if there were no PSX you are delusional.

Look up any documentary on the fall of Sega and you'll find that all of their problems were their own. They either flopped many times, failed with marketshare or third parties. Many of these problems were due to Sega of America and their head who later left and went to Microsoft. Nintendo never lost their footing. Nintendo never lost a gen to Sega and Sega kept flopping around like a fish during the time of the Saturn switching consoles after four years to the Dreamcast. Sega could never manage to sell above ten million consoles. When Sony came, they couldn't keep up. The only company whose marketshare was truly affected by Sony was Nintendo.

You've done it again. You ignored the fact that if the Playstation never existed that all those PS exclusives would have been Saturn exclusives. You keep saying how Sega made mistakes, that's true, but you seem to refuse to acknowledge that the nail in Sega's coffin was Sony. If Sony handn't sucked all the air out of the video game market Sega could have kept breathing.



chocoloco on 12 December 2012
mushroomboy5 said:

I'm a nintendo fan who owns an xbox 360 and a ps3....what the fuck???? I dunno who I am anymore!

but I love you all (in a non-creepy way!)

My boy!

Red and the green represent. And blue too sometimes. 



Gamerace on 12 December 2012

I should hope they like each other, I own both systems (Wii/360)



 

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S.T.A.G.E. on 12 December 2012
kain_kusanagi said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
KungKras said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
 

Not true, Sony expanded the market.Sega consoles never sold that much to begin with when you look at the amount of consoles they've shipped from generation to generation. The Genesis was pretty much it for them and even that couldnt properly compete with Nintendo. Before Sony entered the console race home consoles were frowned upon and Nintendo dominated a console race that at best commanded ninety million consoles. When Sony entered the console race they increased the userbase to two hundred million consoles and solidified consoles in the media as potent multimedia electronics. Sony saught respect for gaming consoles,and gained the respect of the wealth of third parties at a staggering pace. Sega was in a downward spiral regardless of the existence of Sony. Nintendo was butchering Sega and Sony showed both how you create a dominant console and stay ahead of trends, because after all they were a hardware company. You pirate their format, they'll just make another one. Microsoft at that point was notified of Sonys market dominance and the increase in the size of the gaming market and saw the console industry as a visible threat to their multimedia dominance because of their then monopoly over PC OS and was talked into making a console to cut down Sonys marketshare.

If you think that all the 3rd party games that the PSX got but the Saturn didn't would have simply evaporated if there were no PSX you are delusional.

Look up any documentary on the fall of Sega and you'll find that all of their problems were their own. They either flopped many times, failed with marketshare or third parties. Many of these problems were due to Sega of America and their head who later left and went to Microsoft. Nintendo never lost their footing. Nintendo never lost a gen to Sega and Sega kept flopping around like a fish during the time of the Saturn switching consoles after four years to the Dreamcast. Sega could never manage to sell above ten million consoles. When Sony came, they couldn't keep up. The only company whose marketshare was truly affected by Sony was Nintendo.

You've done it again. You ignored the fact that if the Playstation never existed that all those PS exclusives would have been Saturn exclusives. You keep saying how Sega made mistakes, that's true, but you seem to refuse to acknowledge that the nail in Sega's coffin was Sony. If Sony handn't sucked all the air out of the video game market Sega could have kept breathing.


Sega could've had the multiplats, but Sega of America's head was being a hard headed dick. Sega's nail in the coffin was never Sony...they just could never measure up to Sony. Before Sony even came they were floundering.



kain_kusanagi on 12 December 2012
S.T.A.G.E. said:
kain_kusanagi said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
KungKras said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
 

Not true, Sony expanded the market.Sega consoles never sold that much to begin with when you look at the amount of consoles they've shipped from generation to generation. The Genesis was pretty much it for them and even that couldnt properly compete with Nintendo. Before Sony entered the console race home consoles were frowned upon and Nintendo dominated a console race that at best commanded ninety million consoles. When Sony entered the console race they increased the userbase to two hundred million consoles and solidified consoles in the media as potent multimedia electronics. Sony saught respect for gaming consoles,and gained the respect of the wealth of third parties at a staggering pace. Sega was in a downward spiral regardless of the existence of Sony. Nintendo was butchering Sega and Sony showed both how you create a dominant console and stay ahead of trends, because after all they were a hardware company. You pirate their format, they'll just make another one. Microsoft at that point was notified of Sonys market dominance and the increase in the size of the gaming market and saw the console industry as a visible threat to their multimedia dominance because of their then monopoly over PC OS and was talked into making a console to cut down Sonys marketshare.

If you think that all the 3rd party games that the PSX got but the Saturn didn't would have simply evaporated if there were no PSX you are delusional.

Look up any documentary on the fall of Sega and you'll find that all of their problems were their own. They either flopped many times, failed with marketshare or third parties. Many of these problems were due to Sega of America and their head who later left and went to Microsoft. Nintendo never lost their footing. Nintendo never lost a gen to Sega and Sega kept flopping around like a fish during the time of the Saturn switching consoles after four years to the Dreamcast. Sega could never manage to sell above ten million consoles. When Sony came, they couldn't keep up. The only company whose marketshare was truly affected by Sony was Nintendo.

You've done it again. You ignored the fact that if the Playstation never existed that all those PS exclusives would have been Saturn exclusives. You keep saying how Sega made mistakes, that's true, but you seem to refuse to acknowledge that the nail in Sega's coffin was Sony. If Sony handn't sucked all the air out of the video game market Sega could have kept breathing.


Sega could've had the multiplats, but Sega of America's head was being a hard headed dick. Sega's nail in the coffin was never Sony...they just could never measure up to Sony. Before Sony even came they were floundering.

Dude. The platform with MGS, Final Fantasy, and Crash Bandicoot was the winner. If not Sony it would have been Sega. We aren't talking about multiplats. We are talking about all the Playstation games that would have been Saturn games had Sony never entered the market and took over. It wold have been just N64 with limited cart storage versus only the Sega Saturn with all the big games. All the games that made the Playstation succesfull would have been only on Saturn.

Had that happened Sega would still be making hardware today. We probably wouldn't even have Xbox because without Sony's living room success MS would never have bothered.



Turkish on 12 December 2012
small44 said:
Playstation dominate Nintendo and Xbox 2 generation that why both hate Sony but not hate each other.


I hafta agree with this. They seemed to have formed a coalition some years ago against evil sony fans, you would see Wii60 and other shit, it was pathetic. Now with the WiiU release, it seems like the xbox fans betrayed their nintendo partners as I see a lot of xbox fans flame the WiiU.

 

As a Sony fan I don't care though, I like to confront all of them, even pc fans.



fighter on 12 December 2012
S.T.A.G.E. said:
fighter said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
fighter said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
crissindahouse said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Nsanity said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
Microsoft came into the gaming industry to make money, so their attention is generally focused on Sony and not Nintendo. Same goes for the major following behind Microsoft if they take sides.

Fixed.


No...read the story of why Microsoft came into the industry. Sonys marketshare was a threat and they threatened the PC market (multimedia and os), so the Direct X team convinced Microsoft to create the Xbox. Since then they've lost sight of their defense of PC and have actually aided Sony in picking at the PC market, taking devs and attracting more attention to consoles. Thank goodness for Steam.

so what you want to tell us is that a company is selling new products to stay alive and won't get raped by another company in the future?

i never thought that!


To stay alive? Microsofts shareholders wanted out, but they ignored them and have repeatedly thrown it in their face about the success of the 360. Microsoft didnt need to be involved in the gaming industry in that capacity but just like Apple they dont want anyone getting ahead in personal multimedia besides themselves. Microsoft did not need to enter gaming to stay alive, they knew this from the start. Their attacks on alternative multimedia caused them to lose focus which opened up apples marketshare in the world even further.


could you make your point a bit more clear ? and more specifically related to op's question ?

See my first post. 

"Microsoft came into the gaming industry to hurt Sony, so their attention is generally focused on Sony and not Nintendo. Same goes for the major following behind Microsoft if they take sides."

 

and your point is ? how does that explain that ninendo fans feel similar to xbox fans ?

 


It correlates. The companies who compete with each other the most tend to correlate with fanboy wars. Mario vs Sonic, Whopper vs Big Mac, Samsung (Android) vs Apple, Star Trek vs Star Wars, the list goes on and on. When two similar but powerful products capture the attention on of opinionated people, you will hear about it. When two enthusiasts of rivaling brands meet, either they will have a nice debate but the pros and cons of what they prefer or an explosive argument. Nintendo doesnt have an issue, because Microsoft's focus was never on Nintendo except to gather casuals off of what it started. Nintendo and Sony have had words, which is why after Sega, their words were primarily for Sony and vice versa. Do you hear Sega and Nintendo fanboys arguing in the forums? Exactly...there werent many or in most cases none at all when it counted. People are living off of Segas memory so fanboys wont fight about it.

This gen Nintendo fans were alienated, because their offerings were to a totally different crowd from Microsoft and Sony who were focused on one another. Of course Sonys always remembers Nintendo and the fans follow suit as well. 

As for Nintendo and Xbox fans feeling similar, they don't they just have a common enemy. The most they have to argue about based on competition is who went after the casuals. When it comes to the core, thats not really worth arguing. The only arguing you see ocurring is between Sony and Microsoft owners  (about casuals) between the Kinect and the Eyetoy. This is when Nintendo fans come in and side with the Microsoft fans and you get the picture. 

With the Wii U, both Sony and Microsoft owners will now have words with Nintendo, because they are playing with the same games current gen owners are playing. They will have words. 

As I said....it correlates. 


again - the same simp;le questioon you seem to avoid :

when MS entered the console market they were more of a threat to nintendo than to sony as they were competing for second spot and somehow they had the same dynamic as today meaning sony fans were perceived as the most arrogant

so your correlation of competing corporations to competing fanbases is basically in your head

On the other hand if you consider that in any sector supracist believers of a brand (sony / apple are the eprfect example) have cult aspects that prevent discussion from being factual then there is a correlation



Zappykins on 12 December 2012

They get along well. They aren't trying to compete against one another (well, maybe now with the WiiU). For HD and multiplat the Xbox does many things well. For causal and Movement (outside of Kinect) the Wii does many things well. They are both fun in their own ways.

Neither has anything to prove over Sony which some fans still seem to have a chip on their shoulder that Playstation doesn't have the global dominance they once had. They seems to confuse that they can enjoy games, and not need to have the most sales to be validated.



 

Really not sure I see any point of Consol over PC's since Kinect, Wii and other alternative ways to play have been abandoned. 

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