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Originally posted by Xantar
Firstly, this comes as a surprise to nobody. Secondly, what are Microsoft and Sony? I'm sure that if Sony could have gotten away with the kinds of tactics Nintendo used in the last generation, they would have jumped at the chance. Look at financial reports for Nintendo and Sony's game division. The thing is Sony couldn't do what Nintendo did because they were the newcomer to the industry and didn't have nearly the first party support that Nintendo does.
I'm sure that if they could get away with it, Sony and Microsoft wouldn't have DVD-playback on their machines nor built in ethernet and hard drive in the caes of the Xbox.
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Your assumption.
The only fact is that Nintendo is more out for $$$ than the others. Nintendo has a monopoly over Nintendo fans, and they are exploiting it in a bad way. All this talk about games over hardware that they used to have was complelty untrue.
With MS and Sony it's all "if"s with Nintendo, there are facts...
a PRIME example in GBA... nothing can compete with it for 2 reasons
1) People (and Developers) will look at the brand name before the games
2) If a competitor had hardware that was near as out-dated as AGBs it would be laughed off the market, and if a competitor displayed what can REALLY be done with handheld systems now-a-days Nintendo would have an extreme price advantage and start porting big name games from old systems.
Bleh
I'm not trying to start a debate, but this issue with Nintendo pissed me off.
Nintendo would have been better off delaying GCN to late this year and having better games.