Alright, I didn't want to, but you asked for it:
Ask any third-party developer. The best days they EVER saw in terms of profit and good relationships with a console manufacturer was in the PS1 and PS2 days. And to act like Nintendo's loss of first place during the PS1/N64/Saturn era wasn't as bad or worse is simply disregarding the facts. The PS3 has not lost that much third-party support, while, relative to the amount of consoles it sold, the N64 had the worst amount of third-party support possibly out of any console ever made.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson