Now I feel very good knowing GC and X-box never will catch up to Sony.

Personally, I\'d rather see either Sega or Sony come out the leader in this generation, with the Xbox and NGC taking up a sizeable marketshare as well. Since we can count Sega out, things seem to be going as well as I could have hoped so far. Competition is good, we\'ve all seen what a monopoly can do to the handheld market.. why would you want the same thing in the console market?

BTW, GManJoe.. that example dosen\'t prove Sony\'s "Loyalty". The ONLY reason why the PS2 is backwards compatable with the PS1 is because Sony needed a good - cheap - I/O chip for the PS2. For such a minimal task, the PS1\'s core processor worked wonderfully.. and since they are kicking those out in mass quantities for pennies on the chip, it just made good buisness sence. Making the few alterations for backwards compatability was just a ploy to get more gamers to buy the PS2 due to the PSX\'s massive userbase. If they had been TRUELY serious about extending the life of your PSX library, they would have included graphical updates beyond simple texture smoothing.

A nice feature, but don\'t think they gave it to you out of the kindness of their hearts.

Sega, on the otherhand, would have had to totally redesign the Saturn with a cartridge slot + converter to accomodate the Genesis/32x Carts. Since the SegaCD is an ENHANCEMENT to the Genesis, they would have had to include Backwards compatability for the Genny into the Saturn.. and why should they spend the cash (which they didn\'t have) for a add-on which sold pretty pitifully when all was said and done?

Yep, I jumped the Big N ship right on time to catch a ride with the smooth sailing Sony.

Funny how after the SNES Nintendo co-worked with Sony to create the Playstation to contend with Sega\'s 32-bit system. And Nintendo being major asses just bailed out on the project leaving Sony really pissed off. Therefore, Sony didn\'t quit on the Playstation, developed it. Then the Playstation beat the 64, and now Sony has reclaimed the throne that Nintendo once had.

Nintendo has to be smackin\' themselves in the face.

You know what?  I have a feeling this generetion neither M$ or nintendo will catch up to sony.  They have to much of a head start and riding off the success of the ps1 as well, plus a of triple A titles are out for ps2 as well.  Tons of 3rd party support ps2 looks almost unstoppable.

Nintendo screwing sony(in the 16-bit era) is there biggest mistake ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

/me thinks nintendo\'s biggest mistake was abandoning the mature gamer with the N64

Originally posted by mm
/me thinks nintendo\'s biggest mistake was abandoning the mature gamer with the N64

Very true. As the SNES generation grew older (*cough*me*cough), Nintendo grew younger. Pity . I still like alot of their games though

Originally posted by mm
/me thinks nintendo\'s biggest mistake was abandoning the mature gamer with the N64
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I agree and when nintendo did that I said screw them and went with sony and saturn at the time.  Now I\'m with xbox.  Nintendo lost my faith with n64.........

Originally posted by mm
/me thinks nintendo\'s biggest mistake was abandoning the mature gamer with the N64

/me thinks Nintendo\'s biggest mistake was the N64.  But yeah, Nintendo abandoning the mature gamer was pretty bad too.

I won\'t speak on the warm feelings someone might get about Sony remaining King of consoles but I can offer what a sick feeling I\'d have at the thought of MS or Nintendo being top dog based on their past performance in that position. If seeing things that way makes me a fanboy, well...


I\'ve been called worse names

I won\'t speak on the warm feelings someone might get about Sony remaining King of consoles but I can offer what a sick feeling I\'d have at the thought of MS or Nintendo being top dog based on their past performance in that position. If seeing things that way makes me a fanboy, well...

I could care less what brand name is on my game console.
 
I can understand why some people want one system to do better than another. When I buy something I want to see it around for a long time. I don\'t like wasting money.

If Sony is the only one left standing then we all lose.

Ace

Originally posted by Ace


If Sony is the only one left standing then we all lose.

Ace

Bull$hit. Video console wise Nintendo was on there knees after the last round. How did we all lose?

Originally posted by Heretic


Bull$hit. Video console wise Nintendo was on there knees after the last round. How did we all lose?

I gurantee what he means is that a multiple console competition is way better than just having one console rule

I gurantee what he means is that a multiple console competition is way better than just having one console rule

Give that man a cigar.

Ace

[Bobs_Hardware]

its not really abandoning the the mature gamer...you have to actually be on the ship, before you jump off... and Nintendo have never satisfied the mature gamer..

come on mm...you dont honestly consider yourself mature do you??

i dunno, i dont act that way.  although, i should, at my age