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Which company is the most essential for console gaming?

Nintendo 453 49.08%
 
Sony 416 45.07%
 
Microsoft? 53 5.74%
 
Total:922
Carl2291 said:
Obvious answer is Sony if we are talking exclusively about homeconsoles. Sales dont lie. PlayStation as a brand is simply the biggest and most important in the industry on a worldwide scale thanks to constant quality, value and positive word of mouth. Even the worst, fucked up effort from Sony is going to go on and push over 90 Million units.

Sony do a magnificent job in getting PlayStation (and gaming in general) out to expanding markets. Nintendo and Microsoft either dont bother or simply cant compete.

PS - 104.25 Million
PS2 - 157.68 Million
PS3 - 82.54 Million
PS4 - 6.01 Million

Combined - 350.48 Million

NES - 61.91 Million
SNES - 49.1 Million
N64 - 32.93 Million
NGC - 21.74 Million
Wii - 100.95 Million
Wii U - 5.81 Million

Combined - 272.44 Million

Xbox - 24.65 Million
X360 - 81.12 Million
XOne - 3.62 Million

Combined - 109.39 Million

And Id be willing to bet that when Gen 8 is over and done with, PlayStation homeconsoles will have outsold every Nintendo and Microsoft effort combined, despite it being a total of 4 consoles versus 9. PlayStation as a brand is simply synonymous with homeconsole gaming. A lack of Sony (and thus PlayStation) would leave a far bigger hole in the industry than either of the others leaving.

And with this, I leave. Have fun guys.


Please make a "sale thread" with this post on the Nintendo forum. We usually get Microsoft and Nintendo but  not Sony and Nintendo!



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I like all three and want them to stay but if I had to choose one it would be Nintendo because the industry wouldn’t be what it is today without them.



Sony and MS are interchangeable.

Nintendo is unique.



Haha. "Essential."



Nintendo introduces gamer as children, Sony keeps them gaming through adult hood, and MS makes it mainstream in the US. With only one by itself would fail, when it was only Nintendo gaming wasn't taken seriously at all.



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Sony.

Without PS4 this industry would die. WiiU's, or NIntendos disappearance wouldnt be really relt. 3rd parties dont make their money on Ninty systems.



The company  that makes many games featuring that damn plumber. You probably heard  about that company.



                
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All of them. Or none of them.

The industry would not benefit from lacking any of the big three. At the same time, none of them is really that important.



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If we're discussing the companies in terms of being in console manufacturing then all of them are replaceable, as the past has shown.



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