What company would hurt the gaming industry the most...

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Obliterator1700 on 03 August 2008

Sony...

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Sky Render on 03 August 2008

I see a lot of declarations of "Sony", yet the industry did just fine without them before. There's little to no reason to believe that gaming would not survive on other consoles if there were no PlayStation systems made. Sony did not do anything of note for the industry beyond take it over.

No, it's the loss of Nintendo that would hurt the industry the most. Nintendo resurrected the industry after American companies destroyed it in the early 1980s. They introduced every single sustaining innovation that made it so games could be better (not to be confused with sustaining innovations like the CD or DVD, which ultimately just made it so games could be bigger). Without Nintendo, the industry would have remained dead after 1984. Were Nintendo to leave and no company rise to fill the void of inventiveness that departure created, the industry would collapse within two generations of consoles due to sheer lack of innovation and due to the rehashing of old ideas with only minor updates. Just like it did in 1984.

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Dgc1808 on 03 August 2008

SONY....

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hunter_alien on 03 August 2008

Menago KF said:
IMO Nintendo. I mean, they're the symbol of gaming, always have been and always will.

Well for some it was Sega, for some is Sony and for others is MS... so yeah, I dont think that loosing the "symbol" would effect the gaming industry at all...

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hunter_alien said:

Menago KF said:
IMO Nintendo. I mean, they're the symbol of gaming, always have been and always will.

Well for some it was Sega, for some is Sony and for others is MS... so yeah, I dont think that loosing the "symbol" would effect the gaming industry at all...

There's quite a difference between losing a "symbol" of gaming and losing the only company that actually innovates instead of just stealing ideas from the competition...

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Naum on 03 August 2008

Nintendo all the way.. the others don't even come close sadly.

If it isn't turnbased it isn't worth playing (mostly)

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