Nintendo sells out to Microsoft

Dude you really have no life at all if you think posting in an online forum gives you any autorithy and/or power to decide in society...

Seriously, "I feel honored"? who the fuck you think you are? Miyamoto? Carmack?

And yeah, I meant the damn Nes, cuz at the time it had more than 90% of the market! while the Snes at best managed to get as much [market share] as the Genesis did in its best days, but nowhere close to what the Nes archieved!

Do you get that? or is too fucking difficult to understand?

 

come now children, play along nicely!

 

Ditto :nod:

Also I thought the MegaDrive/Genesis had the lead over the SNES until they completely dropped support for it in favour of the Saturn?

 

Exactly, and nintendo never fully recuperated, since a year and a half later they were losing again, this time against sony....

 

"Sega trashed Nintendo"

When I first read that, yeah, I went into "OMGWTFGTFO" mode..
But when you consider, as has been mentioned, that Nintendo viciously led the pack with the NES and in the span of a few years was suddenly neck and neck with Sega, fighting for its dear title as console gaming king...

Shadowlayer's just exaggerating, but he makes a good point. Now, imagine if Apple suddenly took half of the home computing OS market. Microsoft would definitely be relatively "thrashed"!

(in b4 'different comparison, different situation')

 

My main point is that nintendo having 80% or more of the portable market is meaningless, since they had more than 90% of the console market in the past, and now its lucky if it has more than 20%.

The Genesis did a good job, so did the PSX, but on the portable market the only consoles that were even close to beat the Gameboy were the GameGear and the PSP, yet none of those had enough force (as their console counterparts) to beat nintendo in this area.

The irony is that those 2 consoles share the same issues: both were considered too large, too pricey, lacking killer apts and with a low battery life when compared to nintendo's offerings.

 

Oh you're just shitting in the wind now. I don't think posting in an online forum gives me any "autorithy (sic) or power to decide in society." I never said that, so I don't know where the hell you got that from.

Yeah, you should. Usually I skip everything you post and when I actually do read one of your posts, it makes me remember why I skip like 99% of them. None of them ever makes sense, you pull shit out your ass, and you will continue to argue a point after being proven wrong by 3 or 4 different people time and time again.

Since when does selling 20 million more consoles than your competitor equal barely managing to get as much market share as your competitor? I've said this before but apparently it's too difficult for you to understand. YOU ARE FAILING TO LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE. You are concentrating on one area of performance, the US, rather than its performance throughout the world. If you look at worldwide performance, then you will see why what you said was ridiculous.

I'm done arguing with you, because you're a hardheaded little peckerwood and no matter how many times I stress the same point you will never understand. That, and I'm sick and tired of reading your posts.

Not quite, especially if you consider the world market and not just one portion of it. In Japan the MegaDrive wasn't even a serious contender. The MegaDrive was only ever really popular in the US and the UK. Looking at worldwide stats, however, will show that the SNES had a good lead over the Genesis/MegaDrive even before the 16-bit era was over.

 

The only people who thrashed Nintendo were Sony, and this generation they are striking back (and how!). The Sega/Nintendo thing was pretty much even.

In terms of the handheld, Nintendo has had 3 massively popular gaming systems, all with superior hardware competitors. They absolutely owned Atari, Sega, Bandai and SNK. Sony are not doing well in comparison to the DS, no matter what tricks they make the PSP perform. The PSP has a solid library of games, it has multi-media coming out of it's ass, but the public like the DS. Nintendo know their handheld market well and nothing is really going to take them down.