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Originally posted by gekko
Don't mix facts. Sony has no name in the handheld market in the same way Nintendo has no name in the TV industry.
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The handheld market is only a faction of the "game" industry, where Sony has the biggest name.
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No, Sony has the best selling console of today. Nintendo has been around longer, with more generations of people growing up with Nintendo as a household name. Plus, Nintendo still owns the handheld market. Sony makes a successful console, Nintendo is responsible for the survival of the game industry, has been around for over a quarter century, completely dominates the handheld industry, and their games are widely regarded as the best in the world.
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at a time you could say the same thing for Atari... right now, they are simply not on top, period. If they were, GCN would have at LEAST demolished Xbox.
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Sony had a lucky break. Nintendo has dominated the handheld market for over a decade. You just don't step in and chance that, in the same way Nintendo and Microsoft can't just walk in and expect PS2 to crumble. You may survive, but you're sitting 2nd chair, by a long shot.
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Lucky break??? Sony came in with weaker hardware and no name and beat the hell out of the champion (at that time)... Sony comes in with weaker hardware again, and beats the hell out of them, again. Lucky break my ass.
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In that case, maybe you should try reading the quote a few more times. Don't know what you're talking about. What I am saying is that Sony tries to target the adult gamer with PS2. Their current audience, the ones with whom they have a name, is not the same people that buy handheld machines. Handhelds are mainly played by the younger demographic, the kind Sony seemed to want to avoid for the last 6 years. The one that so many people say belongs to Nintendo.
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You know, Ps2 isn't selling only to adults... like I said to BAB, Kids like Adult games more than cartoonish kid games. I dunno why, but they prefer "cool" over "kiddy"
Sony realized this in the console industry, and dominatd, MS knows it, that's why they are keeping up with Nintendo... and Nintendo is blind to it, that why they haven't shown any improvment sales wise after the SNES.