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Originally posted by TheGame
Gekko, GBA's outsell GCN, that means GBA owners own Ps2, and there is a good chance that most GBA owners own Ps2s... so how do they have no name in that market?
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Well if the console/handheld market crossed over so wel don't you think the sales of the Cube would have been better?
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Sony is the biggest name in the game industry, period. Nintendo had that crown, but thier ignorance killed them... if Sony could step into the game industry as a whole and dominate Nintendo's console, why can't they do it in the handheld market?
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I don't see why everyone is comparing the PSX/N64 situation with the GBA and well anything.
Even though Nintendo was the market leader, they were entering the console market on somewhat equal footing as Sony since they were releasing a new console as well.
In this case, Nintendo's console is long out and has an establisted fanbase. It's gonna take a helluva an effort to get their fanbase plus the support of developers.
I mean logically speaking, would a developer develop for a handheld with an install userbase of 35 million or one with none? Will gamers buy a handheld with a couple of games or go with one that has over a thousand?
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I like this quote
"Sony is trying to grab a completely different market, where they have no name."
They have a MUCH bigger name then the had when they first started making consoles, and still dominated...
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Handheld and console has for the most part pretty much remained seperate. Even though Nintendo fell from grace somewhat on the console side, their handheld has always done well, and it's not for a lack of competition. In it's time The GB in all it's forms has dealt with many handhelds the Nomad, GameGear, Game.com, Atari Lynx, WonderSwan and many others.
And the PSP is still a ways off, who's to say Nintendo won't re-release yet another update to the GBA, I mean the SP was announced and sjipped in like 2 months.
Also what part of the market will Sony grab? The GBA unlike consoles seems to go past age or anything. I mean you will see little kids, teens, adults, everybody using a GBA or one of it's forms.
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