Are you delusional or just trying to stay ignorant to the facts? Do you know the marketshare of Genesis vs SNES?

Does that look 85 percent to you? If so, you suck at maths and go back to school. When PlayStation came out in the 2nd half of the 90s Sony dominated the market, PS1 sold 3x as much as n64 and 10x as much as Saturn. Nintendo never dominated any market before the Wii and they're about to lose that title to the PS3.

To be fair, I think he might of meant right at the start of the 90's, like, before the Mega Drive/Genesis truly found it's feet with Sonic, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, and it hadn't been released in PAL terrortories where Sega actually had the edge in market share.

Nintendo brought that on themselves by going with an irrelevant storage medium, and a barebones controller, it had better specs than the PS2 on paper, but games like San Andreas would've been counter-intuitive as all hell if the GC had a port.

Plus, you seem to be forgetting that the original Xbox.... existed.

Irrelevent storage medium? Are you refering to the small disks? Most PS2 games would have fit on a single Gamecube disk you know that right? Heck a lot of early PS2 games aren't even DVD's, games like Twisted Metal Black are CD's.

How would grand theft auto be counter intuitive on Gamecube? I think the only reason it didn't get a port was because Nintendo was heavily against violence in video games back then. Gamecube did see True Crime release.

Either way, I won't deny Nintendo was largely at fault, but I blaim thier relationship with 3rd party's. Nintendo likes to make consoles without talking to them, and then expects them to make games for them....that's not how it works. So if WiiU fails, that's fine, no one was asking for a Gamepad, you can't mimic the DS and expect the same thing to happen.

If One fails because of the terrible launch, mandatory Kinect, and bad anti-gamer policies it originally had, and WiiU fails because of a Gamepad no one asked for and a lack of 3rd party support because of poor console planning, then I'll be happy if PS4 dominates. I don't want it to the point where it kicks Nintendo or MS out of the console war because competition make better products, but if Sony is the only one who listens to gamers, then why should MS or Nintendo systems sell well?

I'm aware that most PS2 games used CDs at launch, I gave San Andreas as an example specifically because of the scale of the game, filling up an entire single layer DVD, there's no way it would've been done on a single mini-disc, and even 2 would've been debatable, hardly ideal for a GTA game.

And I didn't mean because of Nintendo's supposed kiddie image lol (especiially considering how hellbent they were on keeping RE games exclusive to the system), although I guess the infamous purple lunchbox moniker didn't help, I was referring to the GC controller itself because of the lack of pressure sensitive face buttons, awkward C-stick, and lacking several other inputs. As much as I like the GC controller for it's first party games, it was a chore for third party games. Even if the games it missed out on were ported, it'd seem trivial at best just to see if/how it could be done, and wouldn't have offered anything significant over the PS2/OG Xbox versions.

Point I'm making though, despite the N64 and GCN being more powerful architecturally, the PS1 and PS2 did essentially win those generations because they were better equipped to deliver what Nintendo couldn't, which is principally what's happening now with the Wii U. That's all I'm saying.

the last time Sony consoles dominated, PS1 and PS2 we ended up with vast libraries of great games on a single system, despite buying all 3 I am all for that happening again.

It must be fairly frustrating for the hardcore Microsoft fan though, to be on top for much of this generation like the popular guy in highschool, then not only have the carpet swept from under your feet at the last second, but facing the prospect of spending the remainder of your college years in the shadow of the new mr popular, though the same was said for the PlayStation fan when mr popular ps2 got to college and his room mate Xbox 360 got all the girls - i suppose if were sticking with that theme in the end ps3 grew up and got rid of the acne, bottle-bottom glasses and became popular too.

You can call out xbox fans for their story changing avoidance tactic ways all you want though, just know and understand that if the tables were turned its the playstation fans that would be doing all of the defending, much like they did with the PS3 in the early days.

Only major difference here is that as a console brand, despite all of Microsofts piles of money, despite a matured and excellent network infrastructure, the PlayStation brand is just more widely liked around the world, evident from the PS3 playing catch up (but actually catching up) since the day it was launched, despite the higher press, less games and usually the crapper version of multiplats.

Launching with the opposite climate, the public favor, lower price point and virtually identical launch windows, the Xbox One doesnt stand a chance in the short or longterm, i just hope it does well enough sales wise to have a long and fruitful life as there are a fair number of promising and enjoyable IPs attached to them.

Anyone wishing their failure, are essentially wishing the demise of very good franchises, in which case you are wanting the destruction of games purely because those games arent on your chosen system, and you need to grow up.

Xbox fans that cling to the prospect that the xbox one has hidden power, or will match or even beat the ps4 this generation, also need to wake up and smell the coffee, it isnt bad to remain an xbox fan, not by a long shot, enjoy the console and enjoy the games, and playstation fans, we get it the PS4 is more powerful, and is most likely going to sweep this generation with ease, its obvious so shut up and play your games theres no need to kick others while theyre down, just be realistic about things or regardless of which side youre on, or which side comes out on top, you move from being a fan to being a fanboy.