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What is your favourite "dominant" console?

NES 6 3.35%
 
SNES 29 16.20%
 
PS1 22 12.29%
 
PS2 61 34.08%
 
Wii 19 10.61%
 
PS4 23 12.85%
 
Yo Mama! 19 10.61%
 
Total:179
joel1989 on 26 April 2014
bananaking21 said:
how on earth is 4th a gen with a highly dominant console? its just 9m between snes and the genesis.

and in the 7th the Wii isnt highly dominant, PS3 and 360 will easily pass the 85 million mark and end at the 88-92 million. Wii will end around 102 million i wouldnt consider that domination looking at the total sales of the gen. just a 10-15 million difference? market share is in the 30's% for everyone. no way is it "domination".

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*Sound Of Rain on 26 April 2014

3rd party support. It's that simple.

PS4 won't completely dominate either because it doesn't have an overwhelming amount of 3rd party exclusives.



NobleTeam360 on 26 April 2014

NES was only dominant Nintendo system. Anyway it seems to me PlayStation has always been the dominant console PS1, PS2, and now PS4 (subject to change).



toot1231 on 26 April 2014

NES
Zelda 2 gets alot of hate but honestly its one of my favorite games of all time.

Zelda 1 is a masterpeice aswell.

and the 3 marios yea the NES wins



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Uabit on 26 April 2014

Well for example last gen was because Nintendo found a new public for videogames, and they were innovative.

This time is because Sony has made a normal and powerful console and Nintendo and Microsoft insist in Kinect, Gamepad and other kind of shit that hardcore gamers don't like



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LemonSlice on 26 April 2014
toot1231 said:
NES
Zelda 2 gets alot of hate but honestly its one of my favorite games of all time.

Zelda 1 is a masterpeice aswell.

and the 3 marios yea the NES wins

Question's in the post, not the poll. ;)



RenCutypoison on 26 April 2014
Kasz216 said:
My take? Gaming is social.


Back when your friend had a NES, you wanted an NES too so when you went over each others houses you'd be familiar with the controls, you could trade games, you could bring games over each others houses etc, and the games everyone talked about and excited about were NES games so you got excited about it.



Then games like Madden and COD became the big games. Multiplatform sure, but nothing sucked more then playing your friend in Madden if he had it on a different console. Then online became the dominant form of online play and you NEEDED the same console just to play him half of the time.


Living in a dormitory right now, I can only agree with you. Not only for the multiplayers, but also lending/sharing games with others.

Right now half the games in my room aren't my mine, and half my games are in other people rooms. And it wouldn't be possible if everyone didn't own the same consoles.



toot1231 on 26 April 2014
LemonSlice said:
toot1231 said:
NES
Zelda 2 gets alot of hate but honestly its one of my favorite games of all time.

Zelda 1 is a masterpeice aswell.

and the 3 marios yea the NES wins

Question's in the post, not the poll. ;)


TLDR

and still not.



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GamechaserBE on 26 April 2014

Games...

You also see it with the Snes and Mega drive, the Snes did not win in europe because their were a lot of games not released in Eu...biggest ones are the final fantasy games/Chrono trigger...

but Megadrive then had some games that were not released in NA for the system...

A lot of soccer games..

Mega Man: The Wily Wars
Smurf games
Zero Wing
Tintin
Wonder Boy III
Worms
Golden Axe III
Second samurai
A Dragonbal z game
Micro Machinese games (2 or more did not made it into US)
some disney exclusives..
Alien soldier



pokoko on 26 April 2014

I didn't realize that the Genesis did that well. I also didn't realize that the PS1 dominated to that degree.

Also, everyone loves a winner. Many people will buy the most popular product simply because it is the most popular product. This allows momentum to snowball.

As someone who has worked in retail for years, one phrase I hear over and over is, "they say this is good." That is often the only criteria some people use when choosing between products.