Have you taken a poll? I\'d be curious to see how many here believe Sony, Sega, or Nintendo would try to crush their competitors, large and small, by any means available given enough cash. - Heretic
Post a poll, and I\'ll bet that not too many people are concerned about it. Of course, it\'ll be fairly one sided since this forum attracts (or tries to attract) more open-minded and understanding gamers rather than people who are afraid of the MS boogey-man.
Nintnedo - Contracted 3rd parties into only producing games for the NES in the 8 bit days. That\'s not a dirty trick intended to crush the opposition at any cost?
Sega - Are known as being viciously and openly critical of their competition.. never stoping to publicly ridicule or tear down on their competition while pumping up their own product. Granted, while this isn\'t necessarily a "Dirty" tactic.. Sega has always taken it way past the mark of good natured buisness tactics.. usually for humorous effect. Remember all those ads in the early 90\'s basically stating that anyone owning a GB had an IQ about that of their dog and probly drank from the toilet? Remember those Ads they placed thumbing their nose at Sony about their shortages while blowing the situation clear out of proportion? Remember the guy in the big Sonic costume going out to the putting greens and harassing the SCEE execs?
Sony has been known to not only buy up 3rd parties in massive quantities (like MS is doing), but have pulled tactics like blackmailing retailers into not stocking Sega and MS ads or products or else they would halt shipments of PS2s to those stores?
This is buisness man.. get over it. You act as if MS is on the verge of taking over.. but look around.. they\'re jus barely hanging on here. Sales in Europe and Japan are beyond pathetic.. hell the PSX outsells them 9/10ths of the time. Sales in America are ok, but still not near enough to support them. Not to mention they\'re in increadibly hot water with Nvidia over their GPU which could potentially put a halt to Xbox production unless it\'s resolved. Is Microsoft even making a profit are they still hemmoraging cash from their latest pricecuts, which they had to impliment because Xboxs jus weren\'t selling.
Christ dude, I don\'t wanna see MS dominate the console market either.. but I don\'t wanna see Sony dominate it any more. MS CANNOT Monopolize the gaming market like they did the PC market. New systems come out at a rate of every 5 years, and since there isn\'t a single OS out there which all game software must be compatable with.. MS\'s maybe future stranglehold will only last as long as developers are willing to let it. No different than how Nintnedo\'s stranglehold was broken.. and how Sony\'s is starting to slip.
Gimmie a break man.. ugh..
