it also will make you buy PS5 (have you bought PS4?)

The Vita and its memory card prices

Let's see: They held less than a third of the disc space that DVDs had. The regular DVD was also the standard at the time (PS2 and Xbox), so I bet GCN discs were more pricey to produce for third party publishers.

The greatest fuck up of all time has to be nintendo.

First their draconian approach to third parties in the 90s, then they stabbed sony in the back which in turn led to the creation of their greatest nemesis.

But they didn't stop there, tgey then chose to use cartridges for the N64 inadvertently handing over the generation to sony.

If any company did what nintendo did then now they would be crucified then burned.

Whats interesting is that all nintendos demons are still haunting them till this day. PlayStation keeps growing, third parties won't touch them and for some sick reason they still somehow always manage to fuck it up on the hardware side of things.

The decision of Nintendo to eventually include the tablet controller...( If you don't know it guys, Nintendo was very skeptical towards the tablet controller, and they were about to drop it almost 1 year before wii u release date, because of skyrocketing wii u manufacturing cost and by extension retail price, I can't really fathom why they changed they mind, superbia due to wii era? )

I love it because of the off-screen play but appart from that, there isn't any other thing about it to like...!

I still haven't bought a wiiu, without the tablet it would cost 200$ dollars now, or maybe even less and I would already own one in that case...

Tablet adds 100-110$ to the wii u price, it costed Nintendo's sales and money, ( for approximately 2 years ), plus curtailing the profit margin!

Oh what a terrible business decision that was. ;)

Square Enix, Capcom, Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo.

They've all made some crappy marketing/business decisions from money hatting, buying exclusives, selling exclusive, selling timed exclusive, parity clause, over pricing, and on disc micro-transaction. Game Cube, wii, wiiU.

I should say something for my non favorite ( in terms of video gaming ) companies too...


Sony putting overly expensive components inside ps3 making an outright expensive home console, that in its first years had a very bad performance owing to its price and the urgent price cut might raised the sales but ps3 was being sold at a huge loss ( still even without the price drop, it was being sold at big loss, since ps3 manufacturing cost was 780$ lol ) !

Till 2009 they managed to cut the manufacturing cost by 70% ( How? By ditching the costly components, they kept the blu ray player though, albeit they dropped it fairly later with a console revision ) ) and by extension price fell to even more reasonable levels... How the size of PS2 success can blind you... Eh?
Sony lost 5$ totally, over ps3!


As for Microsoft, I haven't watch their video game business course in the past regarding video games market! Although, there is something in my mind but it's insignificant when thinking how gigantic Microsoft is , its tons of money and that their video gaming buisness is from the least important of theirs!

Microsoft's whole used game and always online policy in 2013 before Sony moved them. They had the NA market on lockdown and were even worldwide before that. It was a major market shift. Also their god awful "buy an Xbox 360" response to the problem. Then you see their whole focus on Kinect and apps over games. Never thought I'd see a Playstation controlled NA market this soon but they made all the wrong decisions.

The Xbox One in 2013. The PS3 marketing was bizarre, but at least they recovered from it.