Manmademan
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These numbers are great.
The SNES only came into being because of the release of the Genesis. Nintendo wanted to keep rolling with the NES before the Genesis was released IIRC.
lol. Nintendo wouldn't have been able to keep milking the NES even if there was no genesis. They had lost terribly in court, and developers had begun to figure out ways around that NES lockout chip. And besides, sales naturally decline over time as the market becomes saturated. even the gameboy with no real competition was eventually replaced with the GBC and GBA.
And the PS2 was kind of horrible from a hardware perspective and had faulty hardware at launch and was supposed to be the least developer friendly system ever.
PS3, Saturn, and Jaguar are laughing their asses off at this one. The failure rate for the PS2 wasn't anything special either- the 360 and RROD is the all time champ here.
If the PS4 does incredibly while Microsoft and Nintendo leave the market, Sony will still have competition, but it will be towards social gaming so their resources will likely be focused on capturing those areas instead of core gaming so I think you should hope for competition.
again, the tablet/social market and the console market are two completely different markets serving two different audiences. Sony is not chasing them with the PS4, and if they had any thoughts about doing so, the WiiU getting obliterated in the attempt has surely crushed any ideas of doing so. There's more than one reason the camera isn't packed in anymore- the casual market that was crazy about motion control and camera gaming has largely moved on to other things.