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This is coming from a guy, whose company almost killed the entire industry.

Yup, I guess he is credible for knowing what irrelevancy means. Lol



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tiffac said:
This is coming from a guy, whose company almost killed the entire industry.

Yup, I guess he is credible for knowing what irrelevancy means. Lol

So, how exactly did Atari almost kill the entire videogame industry?  Do you even know what happened?  I have a feeling you believe that Atari was responsible for the glut of unlicensed content on their console by everyone and their cousin doing games.  Can you name me who at Atari was responsible for Chase the Chuckwagon?  If you don't know what Chase the Chuckwagon is, I seriously doubt you even know what the heck you are talking about regarding Atari.



richardhutnik said:
tiffac said:
This is coming from a guy, whose company almost killed the entire industry.

Yup, I guess he is credible for knowing what irrelevancy means. Lol

So, how exactly did Atari almost kill the entire videogame industry?  Do you even know what happened?  I have a feeling you believe that Atari was responsible for the glut of unlicensed content on their console by everyone and their cousin doing games.  Can you name me who at Atari was responsible for Chase the Chuckwagon?  If you don't know what Chase the Chuckwagon is, I seriously doubt you even know what the heck you are talking about regarding Atari.

I was being overexaggerated of course. My goodness its like you work for the guy and do I get anything for answering your questions?



When I say Nintendo is under 12 I get banned but when founding father of games says it,what will you do now,ha?



richardhutnik said:
tiffac said:
This is coming from a guy, whose company almost killed the entire industry.

Yup, I guess he is credible for knowing what irrelevancy means. Lol

So, how exactly did Atari almost kill the entire videogame industry?  Do you even know what happened?  I have a feeling you believe that Atari was responsible for the glut of unlicensed content on their console by everyone and their cousin doing games.  Can you name me who at Atari was responsible for Chase the Chuckwagon?  If you don't know what Chase the Chuckwagon is, I seriously doubt you even know what the heck you are talking about regarding Atari.


Bro, forget my insensitive reply above. I did not realize you have some emotional investment on this subject and when I saw your thread. I realize I was offending you. I didn't come to VGC to insult anyone. Nor do I know you enough to make fun at your credibility.

I just do not agree with the Atari guy.



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I think everyone will agree that the comparison between the Jaguar and the Wii-U is dumb. However, I think that a comparison between the Dreamcast and the Wii-U is more suitable. 

In addition, like it or not he has the best intentions. And he's right in some things like the fact that Nintendo needs to expand their audence. They have Metroid and don't know what to do with it. The last franchise (aside of the Wii-Series) they created was Pikmin almost 10 years ago. They don't have a strong relationship with Third-Parties.

 

snyps said:

Nintendo has been no. 1 for almost 30 years and been around for over a century! Ppl like atari, nokia, etc.. were a flash in the pan. The guy who caused the industry crash giving advice to the ones who saved it. I love it.

No. He didn't caused anything. He was fired from Atari years before the crash. He's only guilty of selling Atari to some dumbasses who later decided to change the direction of the company and fired him ('cause he didn't like the things they wanted to do). Then, they ended up destroying not only Atari but the entire Industry.



lehamsy said:

I think everyone will agree that the comparison between the Jaguar and the Wii-U is dumb. However, I think that a comparison between the Dreamcast and the Wii-U is more suitable. 

lol. how exactly?



Well, the man does have experience in failing, lol



tiffac said:
richardhutnik said:
tiffac said:
This is coming from a guy, whose company almost killed the entire industry.

Yup, I guess he is credible for knowing what irrelevancy means. Lol

So, how exactly did Atari almost kill the entire videogame industry?  Do you even know what happened?  I have a feeling you believe that Atari was responsible for the glut of unlicensed content on their console by everyone and their cousin doing games.  Can you name me who at Atari was responsible for Chase the Chuckwagon?  If you don't know what Chase the Chuckwagon is, I seriously doubt you even know what the heck you are talking about regarding Atari.

I was being overexaggerated of course. My goodness its like you work for the guy and do I get anything for answering your questions?

With myself, I grew up during the Crash of the early 1980s and witnessed what happened personally.  I still have piles of magazines from the pre-crash era.  I saw how bad quality software helped to kill the industry and cause a loss of interest in home consoles.  With this, back in the day, I was an Atari fanboy, so there is a bit of that there.  But what you wrote, was WAY oversimplified, so I called you on it.  And I will say, what I see now is showing signs of things back like they were then.  Sure, I see more polish, and greater production value.  BUT still the same failing at fairly large degrees with a few on top doing winner take all.  I also saw Microsoft ALMOST walk into a DRM fiasco, that would of ended up killing a feedback loop to the indusrty by blocking used game sales, and even rentals.

By the way, it is ok to not agree with Bushnell.  Heck I disagree with him on him thinking the XBOX One, which costs $100 more than the PS3, is going to be the top selling console based on his belief that Microsoft knows software.



MohammadBadir said:
lehamsy said:

I think everyone will agree that the comparison between the Jaguar and the Wii-U is dumb. However, I think that a comparison between the Dreamcast and the Wii-U is more suitable. 

lol. how exactly?


Great hardware, great games, great price, being released before than any other console, lack of attention from the consumer due to other consoles. 

The situation is pretty much the same.