Nah not gonna happen, at least not soon. The other 2 still have a lot of 3rd party support & get a lot of money from them.

I see this happening next gen, if they keep the lead.

The other night I had a strange dream.

Why not make a pinball game for the Wii where the nunchuk and wiimote are used in placement of the flippers? You know, if you point both up, you hold the flippers up. Point forward and the flippers stay down.

I would love to play Sonic Spinball again like this. :)

There wasn't a monopoly in the NES era. The Sega Master System was around. Nintendo got the majority of the sales but it wasn't the only system around. Also, my answer is no. Sony and Microsoft will be around for a while and there have been rumors that Apple and EA might try putting out a system. I don't believe EA will do it. I think that they are happy where they are, but Apple might do it. Gaming is way too popular for only one system to be around. Believe it or not, not everybody likes Nintendo and wants an alternative. I know. I don't believe it either.

No, it will never happen. Nintendo had borderline no competition when they first created the NES. Even if they took a strong hold of the market like Sony did, they would never be able to return to the amount of dominance as was in the 3rd generation.

Microsoft joined videogames because they wanted a hold in yet another market and they wanted to make money (a goal that failed, but is now starting to come to fruition). Sony accomplished an important goal and pushed Blu-ray to victory with the help of the PS3, so they're probably heavily vested in making Blu-ray discs a standard for videogame consoles.

Again, it's never going to happen ever again. After the crash, few companies saw the value in making videogames anymore and many people viewed it as a fad that had passed. Nintendo was able to make easy work of the battered companies that still composed the market. Now, they're going to have to deal with competitors no matter what. If Sony and Microsoft drop out (which is unlikely) than other companies will join the fray.

Who the fuck would want a monopoly? Are you all that ignorant to put fanboyism over the entire video game market? Monopoly = High game prices, poor quality, poor selection and in the end a massive depression in the video game market that could not heal fully for an entire decade.

Well in the US. In japan the Gensis never got off the ground and got annihlated by the NES.

It really was pure marketing.  They had a different strategy in Japan and it failed.  They put a new guy in charge for the US release and pulled it off well.

Though Nintendo played into their hands early on with their early sensoring too.

That would be weird to me... mostly because pinball machines could of opted to do this but went with button triggers.  I'm assuming you'd have to hold the wiimote knuckle up for such a thing.

I could see it. 

Hm.  It's different... yet also makes me wonder how a Wii motorcycle game would do.

Like the PS2? Sure the Cube and Xbox weren't compeltely removed from the market... but it was fairly obvious they weren't going to be number 1... or even challenge.  The other systems around the time of the Nitnendo probably gave it nearly as much challenge.

Game companies would still ahve to compete with each other afterall.

Thanks celine, never thought Nintendo was power hungry during those days, anyway Nintendo will dominate the market but they will never take control of the whole market like they did during the 90's. I dont know how Nintendo stay at the market and not making another video game crash after all they've done. Is it because of competition?