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Final-Fan on 13 May 2008
Prodigy_BE said:
Oops.

Well, I was right about Trip Hawkins.

And strange that it took so many posts to note the Nintendo fail. If they had gone along with Sony then, Ninti fanboys would have their own army by now.
Backing out of the agreement wasn't what made it a colossal blunder -- apparently the contract gave Sony huge rights or royalties or something over the software that would go on the CD add-on.  It was the way Nintendo handled it that was terrible and possibly goaded Sony into doing what they did.  And then doing it all again with Philips. 

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The Ghost of RubangB on 13 May 2008

The biggest mistake in gaming was teaching me to play games. Shit ruined my life.



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windbane on 13 May 2008
RolStoppable said:
Final-Fan said:
Prodigy_BE said:
Oops.

Well, I was right about Trip Hawkins.

And strange that it took so many posts to note the Nintendo fail. If they had gone along with Sony then, Ninti fanboys would have their own army by now.
Backing out of the agreement wasn't what made it a colossal blunder -- apparently the contract gave Sony huge rights or royalties or something over the software that would go on the CD add-on. It was the way Nintendo handled it that was terrible and possibly goaded Sony into doing what they did. And then doing it all again with Philips.

As far as I know, the reason why Nintendo backed out of the contract with Philips was that they saw the Sega CD flopping and thus there wasn't any need for a CD add-on anymore.

However, Nintendo had to give something to Philips for backing out of the contract which resulted in Philips being allowed to make some Zelda games for their own system, the cd-i. At least that seems to be the most reasonable explanation why these horrible games exist.


Hum...interesting theory. Makes sense. Still counts a big mistake for Nintendo at not realizing the difference between an add-on with little support and a new system. They went to 2 different companies for a disc solution before just giving up...



Strategyking92 on 13 May 2008

I think UMD is far worse that RRoD, my xbox hasn't died yet, but over half of my psp UMD's break when I play them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WTf***!!!!!!! SONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHAHAHAHAHHAHGAGGHGGHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!




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ToastyJaguar on 13 May 2008

I think one of the worst mistake for the dreamcast was not getting enough third party support from devs such as EA. Right then people pretty much knew the DC was going to be shortlived.




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Final-Fan on 13 May 2008
ToastyJaguar said:
I think one of the worst mistake for the dreamcast was not getting enough third party support from devs such as EA. Right then people pretty much knew the DC was going to be shortlived.
Does that really count as a "mistake" though?  It's not as if Sega said, "third parties? Pfft, who needs 'em!"  (That would be Nintendo, haw haw.)

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Aidman on 16 May 2008

1 _ Legend of Zelda in Philips cd-i big huge mistake.
2 _ No Final Fantasy Title in N64 another big huge mistake.
3 _ Denyin' the 2D games in N64 another big huge mistake.
4 _ MicroSoft entrence in gamin' Industry big huge mistake toooooooooo. lol



Rock_on_2008 on 16 May 2008

XBox 360 = huge mistake. RROD issue + lack of internal HD DVD drive + lack of install game option onto HD

^360 without those mistakes would of had much higher sales by now, I assume around 35 million consoles sold LTD.



Rock_on_2008 on 19 May 2008

HD DVD should of been the standard drive within every 360 from the start. This was Microsoft and Toshiba's biggest mistake. HD DVD's were as cheap to produce as standard DVD's. Trying to sell HD DVD's for $30US each was stupid. MS shot itself in the foot. imagine a year ago, if there was 10 million HD DVD 360's available compared to the PS3's 2.8 million Blu-Ray Players. It could of been a different scenario and HD DVD's would still be in the market. MS seriously dropped the ball. This is IMO a much bigger mistake than RROD.
HD DVD drive as an add-on was doomed from the beginning. Add-ons always fail, no one likes paying extra for something that should of been included within the console to start off with.
Blu-Rays are in their early stages. HD DVD's had faster load times and HD Drives were 16 speed compared to the Blu-Ray. Storage capacity for both Blu-Ray and HD DVD are around the same. HD DVD games could of fitted 20GB games on a disc, matching PS3's Blu-Ray Discs.
HD DVD's are now a thing of the past.



Fishie on 25 June 2008
Prodigy_BE said:

And he who thinks blu-ray was a mistake, I'll talk to you in two years time.

 

 Thats what you told me two years ago.