This. But then a certain group of gamers will shut their eyes and just how and moan,as usual. Nothing new to see. Lets port beg for Vita instead!
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Of Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft; which would the industry miss the least?
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This. But then a certain group of gamers will shut their eyes and just how and moan,as usual. Nothing new to see. Lets port beg for Vita instead!
It paints a picture that doesn't at all illustrate the point you're trying to make though.
revolverjgw
Member
MS. Whom I want gone anyway, for selfish reasons. An console industry dominated by two consoles wouldn't be a bad thing. The SNES/Genesis gen was a two-horse race, and after the Saturn sputtered, the PS1 and N64 had a good run. We have two handhelds, PC and the newish mobile landscape to fill out the rest in lieu of things like the PC Engine and 3DO. I just wouldn't miss Microsoft's contributions. The "HD Twins" factor shows that its kind redundant to have three.
The exact same thing could be said about any one of the 3. What you think should Nintendo or Sony fold none of their IPs would migrate somewhere else? If its all about the games then you as a gamer should'nt be faithful to any one of the big 3 cuz they all provide good IPs. That being said, the question asked which one of the big 3 would the INDUSTRY miss the least. The INDUSTRY kind of spoke loud and clear this gen and already going into next gen in Nintendo if anyone cares to pay attention to 3rd party support for the Wii and Wii U.
mysteriousmage09
Member
Microsoft.
Xbudz
Member
Why dont you touch on the point I was making then..
TurboGrafx. Plus Neo Geo, a small army of Japanese PC-based oneshots, and the 3DO/CDi/Jaguar coming in halfway.
Because they had Live to compare it to. Think about Madden and how stale that thing has been without any direct competition....
gioGAF
Member
Microsoft for sure. The xbox is a great console, but Microsoft doesn't really make games and everything made by third parties is available on other consoles. Their absence would be the least damaging (we would lose out on the benefits of having them as a competitor to the other consoles).
I could honestly see that now....
Ruling 2 whole generations does will earn you some favor.......let them screw up for 2 whole generations though......
Krappadizzle
Member
Nintendo. No interest in Zelda, Mario is seriously rehashed. Nothing of interest for me outside of playing a game with the wife for 45 mins. every 3 mos or so. I used to love Nintendo too.
snoopeasystreet
Member
Going forward, Microsoft definitely. They have nothing going forward that I'm looking forward to (with the exception of whatever Remedy is working on).
If up it was wipe them from existence, I'd say Sony. I couldn't imagine not being able to play Geometry Wars 2.
If up it was wipe them from existence, I'd say Sony. I couldn't imagine not being able to play Geometry Wars 2.
That goes for any game really..........
Are you the industry?
Give us lower priced retail games, industry. And fuck your shitty journalists
Why wish them death? Vote with your wallet
You where 'ok' until your last point.
Nintendo has 'very roughly' 14 launched consoles.
NES
SNES
Virtual Boy.
N64
GameCube
Wii
WiiU
GameBoy
GameBoy Pocket
GameBoy Color
GameBoy Advance/(GameBoy Advance SP)
GameBoy Micro
DS/(DS Lite)
DSi/(DSi XL)
(I dropped a couple of Lite/XL DS releases)
Sony has launched 5 consoles to date
Playstation 1
Playstation 2
Playstation 3
PSP
Vita
Percentage wise.. Sony has hit the mark on each of there releases. And I think, over time, The WiiU and Vita will be fine.
By the way, the Nintendo list of released consoles is staggering.
They (Nintendo) is the elder-states men of gaming.
Nintendo may not be the most powerful in the home console realm (please do give me Wii sales figures), however they are extremely influential in the portable market and must be respected across the board.
Completely aware that I just stated one of the most obvious facts in the gaming universe... spare or spear me
Uh you conveniently left the PSP GO of that list there sport....talk about hitting the mark......
The PSP go wasn't a new handheld? Do you also consider the PS3 slim a new playstation?
Silas Lang
Member
Microsoft. I don't dislike them, but I think they could everything that they are already doing (in regards to gaming, not that taking over the living room stuff) on the PC. Besides when I think of "PC", I think of Microsoft. So I wouldn't really miss them if they stopped making consoles.
I will give Sony this......they sell potential like nobodys business....remember Home?
Beer Monkey
Member
Lots of people bought at $599. And it wouldn't have to stay at $599 forever, so you can have a monopoly and still keep growing your user base. Current slims that are $249-$299 could be more like $329-$374 in a market where the Xbox doesn't exist, and yes, they would sell, and Sony would have been able to dig out of their losses.
Monopolies = consumers are assraped. More money. Less features. Less innovation. Windows users that wish Apple didn't exist are morons. PS3 owners that wish Xbox didn't exist are as well.
COMPETITION IS GOOD. MONOPOLIES SUCK. Neither Sony nor Microsoft should have 100% of the market to themselves.
Now thats the fairest statement I've read all day.....I currently cant argue against that ........
AndrewDean84xX
Banned
Right now,
Industry: Tie between Sony & Nintendo
Message Board Posters: Microsoft
Industry: Tie between Sony & Nintendo
Message Board Posters: Microsoft
Kai Dracon
Writing a dinosaur space opera symphony
Microsoft, because they put out the least actual game product. They primarily provide a platform (hardware, Xbox Live).
Sony funds a whole lot of game development directly.
Nintendo is predicated almost entirely on 1st party game product.
Sony funds a whole lot of game development directly.
Nintendo is predicated almost entirely on 1st party game product.
Then why did the dude include GB Pocket, GBA Micro, and DSi?
H_Prestige
Banned
Why stop there? Jack the price of a ps3 slim up to $1000. It's a monopoly, nobody has a choice but to buy, right?
MS discontinuing the Xbox wouldn't even result in a monopoly for Sony anyway. There is still Nintendo plus the countless other forms of electronic entertainment these days. The point was that MS would not be missed if they left, because all they currently offer is a generic box with a disc drive that other people make games for.
Septimus Prime
Member
Microsoft. They brought some things, like online gaming, to the table, but they also brought paid subscriptions and the redefining of "core" to mean first person shooters.
Beer Monkey
Member
Have you ever had an economics class? I'm pretty certain at this point you have not.
At $100000, you make $0 in sales because you sell nothing. You produce virtually nothing, but you have massive R&D losses.
At $1, you lose billions of dollars because each system is sold at a massive loss.
So these extremes never happen. Real pricing ends up somewhere in between, and one of the factors that determine where that pricing ends up is the pricing of substitute goods aka competition. As price disparity (and/or greater feature sets at the same price) increases, fanboys become more likely to consider the competing console a substitute good. And to non-fanboy gamers, two 'twins' like PS3 and 360 are always substitute goods for each other.
The absence of competition reduces pressure on the price of the good. If Xbox didn't exist, PS3 would indeed cost more, and make more late-generation profit. And the inverse is true if Playstation didn't exist.
I'm discontinuing this discussion because you obviously don't understand anything about economics so there's really nowhere else to go with this.
If someone like Samsung or Google would enter the market, then I'd say MS. They don't have first parties I care about, their multiplayer tax is bullshit, and if these rumors and rumblings turn out true, then I wouldn't miss them one bit. Their latest products post 360/Win7 have no interest to me, and apparently many others. I still like Sony's first parties too much, and I enjoy their products (not just console hardware) just as much as say Samsung's. Their design, fit and finish is great. We'd need someone to fill said void though if MS left just to keep Sony evolving.
Ninty is a weird one. I mean, if they left the hardware business and carried on with their software, then I don't think I'd be upset one bit. They'd be able to just focus on games, which is their specialty, and have superior hardware to work with, thus most likely resulting in an even better finished product. I wouldn't want to see them disappear all together though.
Ninty is a weird one. I mean, if they left the hardware business and carried on with their software, then I don't think I'd be upset one bit. They'd be able to just focus on games, which is their specialty, and have superior hardware to work with, thus most likely resulting in an even better finished product. I wouldn't want to see them disappear all together though.
BossLackey
Gold Member
This is probably the most accurate answer I've seen yet.
Woo-Fu
Banned
In terms of games, Microsoft.
In terms of everything else, Nintendo.
While you can look at Microsoft and think most of those games would--and do---exist on other platforms that doesn't tell the entire story. What about Live? Without Microsoft leading the way neither Nintendo, nor Sony would be where they are today when it comes to online.
Even if you don't care for MS or any of their exclusives you have to admit that just by being in the game they've had a positive effect on the games/platforms you do care about.
In terms of everything else, Nintendo.
While you can look at Microsoft and think most of those games would--and do---exist on other platforms that doesn't tell the entire story. What about Live? Without Microsoft leading the way neither Nintendo, nor Sony would be where they are today when it comes to online.
Even if you don't care for MS or any of their exclusives you have to admit that just by being in the game they've had a positive effect on the games/platforms you do care about.
Thank goodness for individual mute........
GoofsterStud
Member
You mean the online gaming that was new and interesting.
I was playing online on my Sega Saturn and it was cool.
I was playing online on my Dreamcast and it was awesome.
That Microsoft.
Iacobellis
Junior Member
Microsoft. What worthwhile franchises do they have nowadays?
Yeah because I want to spend all day muting hundreds of people I come across online.
Party chat was the best mute option ever created.
I remember how sh*%#y the Gen / SNES days were before anyone ever heard of a Playstation. your point?
Just wanna leave that out there for posterity. Wow.
The obvious answer is MS.
Nintendo bring a focus on gameplay and polish. They're the only ones who bring something that no one could emulate.
Sony brought gaming into the mainstream and brought about the industry as now it today.
Thats their dumbness for thinking we would "get a 2nd job"