Oof85
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This is a misread of the videogame history, as its only telling half the story.1994:
Gamers: we want third party games and mature ones!
Nintendo: our insistence on Cartridges makes it hard for other companies to put their games on our system
Sega: our horribly convoluted designed system fucked us over
Sony: here you go
2000:
Gamers: we want more mature third and first party games, and a DVD player!
Nintendo: our console can't play DVDs but it can play miniDVDs
Microsoft: i just entered, what do i do? i've also got this halo thing
Sony: here you go
2006:
Gamers: we want online multiplayer
Sony: ah sorry about that we don't have much of that right now, buy our 600 dollar console though
Nintendo: mOTIoN CONtROL!!!
MIcrosoft, for once: here you go.
2013
Gamers: We want more mature, story driven games made specifically by your first party studios!
Nintendo: we don't have that but we do have this clunky console with an oversized controller
Microsoft: We don't really have first party games but we do have Kinect and DRM!
Sony: here you go
and motherfuckers wonder why their systems sell like hotcakes every time they release a new one. gamers ask for something, sony provides it, they win the generation. other companies falter because they are out of touch.
Nintendo's first forays into the game arena was either arcade or portable.
They've never lost a generation on the portable front, while yes they did stumble, severely at times on the home console end a few times.
But the real read of what the market wants is the bestseller lists and no publisher is more represented there than Nintendo.
It's how we know that the most popular ice cream flavor is vanilla and the most desired fast food chain is McDonald's.
Sony makes great consoles and I loved their first two dearly, but their games aren't the most desired nor is the hardware always well designed(Cell anyone).
But they are the market leader due to inertia and baseline quality, atm.
But this can change, and I think Microsoft is aiming all guns at their headquarters.