Wow, there's some stupidity in here. This is Sony Europe, talking about Sony in the European region. Nothing more. When they say they expanded the casual market, they damn well mean it. The NES and SNES (god forbid we consider the N64 or Cube) sold like crap in Europe, which is expressly why they still get the least number of Wiis.  The Wii is genuinely the first time Nintendo has even found real acceptance in Europe, let alone expanding the market, and the first time that they haven't just been crushed by a Playstation or an Amiga (or whatever).

Yeah, sure, take a walk on a US street and ask people if they know about games expanding the European market. Of course they've never heard of it.  That doesn't mean they didn't expand the European market, it means you need to stop thinking your view of the world has to be applied to everyone else in the world.  People can just talk about the issues that affect them, you know.  Just because the Internet exists doesn't mean that a European Sony exec speaks for the entire company.  His business is Europe, it's all he knows and it's all he can talk about.  Applying his words to anything other than just Europe is beyond asinine.

I'll give you the NES & SNES in Europe but please dont' try to tell me that 42 million Gameboy shipments in Europe was not acceptance in Europe.

he's right, they did expand the console market in Europe with the PS1 and PS2, but it's just a stupid thing to say. Nintendo revolutionized video games many times, but you don't hear a peep out of them about it.

Sony are just spinning their mediocre performance in Europe by saying HEY GUYS, remembers us!?

I never mentioend handhelds, did I? Handhelds may be video games, too, but they are a completely different market. And one that Nintendo has never had real competition in before, to boot. The PSP is the closest Nintendo has ever had to a challenger in that arena, so the fact that they owned that market means nothing to me. Really, if there would have been a competing machine in Europe that said Amiga on it, Nintendo would have had a much harder time in that market.

On the flipside, if the Amiga never existed then Europe would probably either have been Nintendo land, like the rest of the world was, or dead to gaming. Either way, NIntendo has never had a good grasp on how the European market works or what they want there, and this is the first time that they've found success there in the face of genuine competition.

Surely you meant Gameboy and not Virtualboy.  Anyways, beat me too it.

So let me get this straight.

Shoulder buttons, analog stick, rumble, motion sensing, etc...Nintendo never once whined about others following in their footsteps.


Social audience home console gaming.....Sony to everyone else, "But...but, we did it first!"





Then again, I'd say Nintendo still started it by putting 4 controller ports to the N64 and developing Mario Party.

 You can say that again . . . oh wait I did it for you. 

In my circle of friends we call that a Bushism. Making up words is always entertaining, especially when the supposed leader of the free world does it. :)

 That is plain and simple political flamebait.  Seriously, lets try not to do the politics thing.  If you want to make a joke about his made up words thats one thing but the "supposed" part is asking for trouble.  

I'm sorry, the suposed part wasn't directed at Bush it was directed at the United States.