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Jo21 on 24 July 2008

before ps came by, nintendo had all the control in gaming, third parties could only release 5 games per year, and it had to be licensed by them since they were only way to publish them (cassette control)
third parties weren't as huge as they are today.
and thanks to they could expand their market since their games didn't have to be licensed by nintendo.



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appolose on 24 July 2008
RolStoppable said:
obieslut said:
Sony expanded the gaming audience and now its nintendo's turn to do some expansion of the gaming, how big that expansion will be is yet unknown.

I wonder who is going to be the next company to expand the market even further

Sony didn't expand the market by that much. In Japan and America the growth in hardware sales over previous generations can pretty much entirely attributed to population growth. The peak years of the NES and PS2 in the USA are pretty similar according to TheSource.

Most of Sony's expansion is due to releasing the consoles (PS1 and PS2) in markets that didn't officially have videogames before or only in low quantities because of the lacking distribution networks of Nintendo and Sega in Europe in the late '80s and early '90s. If you compare overall NES sales with overall PS1/PS2 sales, you'll notice that most of the growth comes from Europe/Others.

 

Oh?  Is that what happened?  I've always wondered (never examined) how Sony's first console, against Nintendo no less, got 100 million.  Thank you for clearing up that sickening mystery.



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vaio on 24 July 2008
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The sales figures are staggering. Since the first Nintendo DS model appeared in late 2004, more than 76.5 million consoles have been sold worldwide, according to industry tracking site VGChartz.

I liked the mention of the site +1   Everyday this is getting bigger

 

 

 I was waiting for someone to pick that up. Was kind of checking if you people were actually reading the articles I post.

This is huge especially in a well written article that from a very well known site that is going to or have been read by many many people, and the honours of being mentioned in an article about a big historicly important person like this is huge and the effect is going to be as huge or at least I think so.



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exindguy on 24 July 2008
appolose said:
RolStoppable said:
obieslut said:
Sony expanded the gaming audience and now its nintendo's turn to do some expansion of the gaming, how big that expansion will be is yet unknown.

I wonder who is going to be the next company to expand the market even further

Sony didn't expand the market by that much. In Japan and America the growth in hardware sales over previous generations can pretty much entirely attributed to population growth. The peak years of the NES and PS2 in the USA are pretty similar according to TheSource.

Most of Sony's expansion is due to releasing the consoles (PS1 and PS2) in markets that didn't officially have videogames before or only in low quantities because of the lacking distribution networks of Nintendo and Sega in Europe in the late '80s and early '90s. If you compare overall NES sales with overall PS1/PS2 sales, you'll notice that most of the growth comes from Europe/Others.

 

Oh?  Is that what happened?  I've always wondered (never examined) how Sony's first console, against Nintendo no less, got 100 million.  Thank you for clearing up that sickening mystery.

OK, that's pretty funny.

 




ssj12 on 24 July 2008
Soriku said:
ssj12 said:
brute said:
hes made gaming as we know it

 

this generation, Sony made the industry as big as it is today.

 

THIS generation? No. PS1/PS2 generation? Sure. They expanded the market a lot after all.

this genrations was aimed at brute's comment... the second part is for the previous..

 



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sc94597 on 24 July 2008
ssj12 said:
Soriku said:
ssj12 said:
brute said:
hes made gaming as we know it

 

this generation, Sony made the industry as big as it is today.

 

THIS generation? No. PS1/PS2 generation? Sure. They expanded the market a lot after all.

this genrations was aimed at brute's comment... the second part is for the previous..

 

I don't see how expanding the industry = making gaming as we know it.

 



DarkNight_DS on 24 July 2008

As far as I'm concerned all gaming as we know it has been just a copy of what we got on the NES. Sure there were systems before the NES but the NES was the citizen kane of gaming. The SNES was the perfection of gaming and everything else has just been a cookie cutter repeat.



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The Anarchyz on 24 July 2008

I'm a big fan of Shigeru Miyamoto, when we lived the aftermath of the crash, nobody was sure about the NES or FAMICOM, some of my friends said "What is that, a Japanese Atari??? i'll pass", but all of us when we played for the first time SUPER MARIO BROS, all the opinions changed to "We must have the NES"... Shigeru Miyamoto in game design, and Koji Kondo in music (because the music is a great part of the success of SMB) along with Nintendo, made gaming as we know it and saved the gaming industry on the West... Sega then reached to a more mature audience, later Sony with the PS brand expanded gaming to the whole world, and now once again, Shigeru Miyamoto with Nintendo made gaming a whole new experience, they expanded to demographics not seen previously...

Nintendo, Sega and Sony, they are responsible of gaming today, but all started when Shigeru decided to make a game about italian plumbers and a Kingdom in danger...



exindguy on 24 July 2008
DarkNight_DS said:
As far as I'm concerned all gaming as we know it has been just a copy of what we got on the NES. Sure there were systems before the NES but the NES was the citizen kane of gaming. The SNES was the perfection of gaming and everything else has just been a cookie cutter repeat.

This might just make it's way into my sig line at the cost of one of the others but it's an awesome comment even if I don't totally agree withthe spirit of it.




FJ-Warez on 24 July 2008
RolStoppable said:
FJ-Warez said:
RolStoppable said:
ssj12 said:
brute said:
hes made gaming as we know it

this generation, Sony made the industry as big as it is today.

But... but Miyamoto was around long before the Playstations.

More than 10 years before the PS...

... and Mario Kart 64. God, how much I hate this game.

Yes, I´m aware of your sorrow... you hater...

 

Still after reading other of your post it came back to me, how much Sony helped to make bigger the industry, is hard to know since EU didn´t have a lot of support...

 



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