Was the NES the closest thing to a monopoly as a system can get?

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Viper1 on 19 August 2008

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Well the nes had the biggest dominance but the ps3 has sold 140 mill (vg chartz is off by 20 mil) the nes never reached 70 mil.

140? So, Sony is wrong?

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Cypher1980 on 19 August 2008

It was a strange time....

Read the book Game Over for a brilliant run down on the era.

Basically Nintendo risked launching a video game system after the great Video Game Crash of 82/83.

They won because they had the balls to go it alone..

Wait a minute........... Nintendo Wii anyone

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it was a bad thing later though, nintendo monopoly was bad, they got money of each game sale.

when ps1 came by it was heaven to developers they could release more 5 games.

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masschamber on 19 August 2008

Jo21 said:
it was a bad thing later though, nintendo monopoly was bad, they got money of each game sale.

when ps1 came by it was heaven to developers they could release more 5 games.

amazing the way the genesis/snes era just vanished

oh yeah, the microvision had 100% share of the portable cartridge loading system when it came out in the late 70's

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Falcon095 on 19 August 2008

Gearbox said:
Well the nes had the biggest dominance but the ps3 has sold 140 mill (vg chartz is off by 20 mil) the nes never reached 70 mil.

Holy Crap! When did the PS3 sell 125m? I must have missed something very big!

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masschamber said:

Jo21 said:
it was a bad thing later though, nintendo monopoly was bad, they got money of each game sale.

when ps1 came by it was heaven to developers they could release more 5 games.

amazing the way the genesis/snes era just vanished

oh yeah, the microvision had 100% share of the portable cartridge loading system when it came out in the late 70's

on the nes time it was, competition put that aside ;).

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/unions/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=24835229&union_id=1556

with the snes there were still some lincense agreement but it wasn't so bad as the nes time.

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masschamber on 20 August 2008

Jo21 said:

masschamber said:

Jo21 said:
it was a bad thing later though, nintendo monopoly was bad, they got money of each game sale.

when ps1 came by it was heaven to developers they could release more 5 games.

amazing the way the genesis/snes era just vanished

oh yeah, the microvision had 100% share of the portable cartridge loading system when it came out in the late 70's

on the nes time it was, competition put that aside ;).

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/unions/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=24835229&union_id=1556

with the snes there were still some lincense agreement but it wasn't so bad as the nes time.

yes competition from sega and nec, not sony, all sony did was see a profitable market with a few small companies and said we can through money at that and take over

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