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The Ghost of RubangB on 28 February 2009

You do realize that Nintendo, whether you like their hardware or not, is the most influential/successful/beloved/important software developer of all time, right?

If there are no other consoles, there is no hardware competition. That means every game is on a Nintendo console, maximizing the software competition on the single console. That will make Nintendo better. That will make 3rd parties better.

I'm not saying I want this to happen. I want hardware competition too. But if this monopoly happened halfway into a generation... it could be really really damn good for everybody for a year or two. Every single developer would have their best games on the same console as Nintendo's best games. There'd be no console bitching and moaning, just software bitching and moaning. That would be some awesome competition, and it would make all the gamers win.

Then a new hardware challenger would arise.



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badgenome on 28 February 2009

They already have Monopoly.



SmokedHostage on 28 February 2009

To all complaining about rehashing and kiddy games. If Nintendo were to monopoly consoles then I'm 100% sure it's console would get third party support left and right.



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Aquietguy on 28 February 2009
Snaaaaaake said:
Console gaming would be dead if that happened.

Nintendo = the worst of the 3 console makers.

I'd have to become a PC gamer.

 

 Gaming would be no more dead than the NES gen.

How does Ninendo = the worst of the 3 console makers? They only created the fastest selling home console of all time. Can't be that bad.



CAL4M1TY on 28 February 2009

Impossible because as life proves, you're never the only person to do something for too long. People will see opportunity to enter the console market as there's only one competitor.

If one of the current 3 go, I predict apple will be the next to step into the ring.



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Legend11 on 28 February 2009

In my opinion the only way there would be just one format is if there was some kind of consortium and that is very unlikely to happen for a long time.



griffinA on 28 February 2009

Any console that got Nintendo games + FULL third-party support would be the greatest system ever.



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JGarret on 28 February 2009

@griffin

You´re practically talking about the NES right there...and to a lower extent, the SNES.

Personally, I´d like it if there was only a single console at least for a generation.



mike_intellivision on 28 February 2009

Well, I doubt this would happen.

But even if it did, think about it.

Most of the top games on the Xbox 360 and PS3 are third-party. They would still be made for the Nintendo Uber Console.

Also, Sony and Microsoft would probably become third-party software companies. That is what happened to Sega and that is what Sony was pre-1995.

So it would not be all bad.


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griffinA on 28 February 2009
JGarret said:
@griffin

You´re practically talking about the NES right there...and to a lower extent, the SNES.

Personally, I´d like it if there was only a single console at least for a generation.

 

 Yeah but even the NES had competition, albeit tiny, in the master system.

The SNES did have a good amount of Japanese third-party support (which was the region that mattered back then) but the genesis did lock up some western support.



"Pier was a chef, a gifted and respected chef who made millions selling his dishes to the residents of New York City and Boston, he even had a famous jingle playing in those cities that everyone knew by heart. He also had a restaurant in Los Angeles, but not expecting LA to have such a massive population he only used his name on that restaurant and left it to his least capable and cheapest chefs. While his New York restaurant sold kobe beef for $100 and his Boston restaurant sold lobster for $50, his LA restaurant sold cheap hotdogs for $30. Initially these hot dogs sold fairly well because residents of los angeles were starving for good food and hoped that the famous name would denote a high quality, but most were disappointed with what they ate. Seeing the success of his cheap hot dogs in LA, Pier thought "why bother giving Los Angeles quality meats when I can oversell them on cheap hotdogs forever, and since I don't care about the product anyways, why bother advertising them? So Pier continued to only sell cheap hotdogs in LA and was surprised to see that they no longer sold. Pier's conclusion? Residents of Los Angeles don't like food."

"The so-called "hardcore" gamer is a marketing brainwashed, innovation shunting, self-righteous idiot who pays videogame makers far too much money than what is delivered."