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Moonhero on 22 July 2009

Wait? MS won this round?



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Aion on 22 July 2009

Yes great thread, Microsoft is a superpower that shall rule forever. Long live Microsoft.



 

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DavidValbu on 22 July 2009

So if Microsoft == Sony and Sony == Nintendo .... Microsoft == Nintendo?? Solving Maxwell equation...I don't think so...



The_God_of_War on 22 July 2009

How are MS the new Sony if they aren't winning? They've never won.



  

otoniel on 22 July 2009
Erik Aston said:
"Sony has been able to create a lineup strong enough to rival that of Nintendo"

Lulz. Stopped reading there.

hahaha im with u

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Pristine20 on 22 July 2009
Xigmund said:
Next console war M$ probably is going to win.

nah, they have to wait for two gens of the wii.



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Pristine20 on 22 July 2009
RolStoppable said:
Erik Aston said:
"Sony has been able to create a lineup strong enough to rival that of Nintendo"

Lulz. Stopped reading there.

I agree, that line was ridiculous.

Sony's first party lineup is barely able to keep up with Microsoft's and I am being generous. VGC has first party sales at 31m for PS3 and 47m for Xbox 360.

Nintendo trumps both of them with 82m. That's without Wii Sports, Wii Play and Wii Fit.

Somehow, I think he was talking title "effort" and "quality" (however you define those) not sales. From a sales perspective, anyone who knows anything about gaming knows ninty has sold more.



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Mr Khan on 22 July 2009
Pristine20 said:
Xigmund said:
Next console war M$ probably is going to win.

nah, they have to wait for two gens of the wii.

Whether this is part joking or not, i think this is the case. The shift in winning console company only came around when a fundamental shift was made in the norms of console gaming. Nintendo unseated Atari when they re-worked the console game from an open-platform, 3rd-party free for all development cycle to a closed-platform cycle driven by first-party releases, and also got consoles really popular with the children. Sony changed that by building a console game where 3rd party exclusives were a competitor's best asset, and expanded consoles into the high-school/college demographics. Now Nintendo has changed it to a battle over innovation in user interface, and expanded consoles to seniors and women.

 

Unless Microsoft or Sony can make a fundamental change to this latest definition of a console, they are going to lose to Nintendo strictly due to momentum, if nothing else. I equally think that Microsoft and Sony will spend the next generation trying to play catch-up with Nintendo in terms of re-building themselves as the everyman's console, while Nintendo continues to push outward. Unless they can cut out ahead of Nintendo with some brilliant move, it won't happen.



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