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GameSpot: How Nintendo Won The Console War

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I prefer Nintendo games to Sony games, but I'd be lying to you if I didn't admit to the disappointing approach Nintendo took on the power side after the GameCube. I appreciate the accessibility of most of their 1st party games as a parent with little free times. I think Nintendo's approach has paid off with the transition to the hybrid console, especially with the capabilities of the Switch 2 for ports. Sure, the console is weak compared to my PS5 Pro, but the broader gaming audience can see the diminishing returns on power and it matters less to them. The question is whether I will ever become a Nintendo only console owner again. That hasn't happened since I owned an N64.
 
Well the battlefield will certainly look "weaker" come 2027...Microsoft throwing in the towel this year going forward in terms of when it comes to competing, (some would say they did it long ago, but the difference is they near enough spelled it out this year..) Sony's hegemony on the console gaming landscape will be stronger than it ever was in the past 30 + years...
 
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IbizaPocholo said:

GameSpot: How Nintendo Won The Console War

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Lol, Nintendo fanboys are desperate.

Horseganador said:
But do we know Nintendo and Playstation's current market share enough to say that?
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Yes, we know. PlayStation has over 50% of the worldwide market share when also counting Nintendo.

In addition to this, PlayStation in additon to being the top grossing gaming company in the world, it makes almost 3x times the revenue than Nintendo and has the almost the same active userbase in a month than Nintendo has it in a year. If we look individually their segments, Sony makes more revenue from hardware, software, accesories and gamesubs. Regarding console units, the two active PS consoles combined have sold more than the two active Nintendo consoles combined.

According to the factual and objective market data Sony is the clear console market leader, there isn't any kind of doubt. And their success is the main reason of why Sega, Nintendo and soon MS no longer make home consoles.
 
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yurinka said:
Lol, Nintendo fanboys are desperate.


Yes, we know. PlayStation has over 50% of the worldwide market share when also counting Nintendo.

In addition to this, PlayStation in additon to being the top grossing gaming company in the world, it makes almost 3x times the revenue than Nintendo and has the almost the same active userbase in a month than Nintendo has it in a year. If we look individually their segments, Sony makes more revenue from hardware, software, accesories and gamesubs. Regarding console units, the two active PS consoles combined have sold more than the two active Nintendo consoles combined.

According to the factual and objective market data Sony is the clear console market leader, there isn't any kind of doubt. And their success is the main reason of why Sega, Nintendo and soon MS no longer make home consoles.
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So Who make more REVENUE?
Sony or Microsoft.

I thought the console war was about Console Sales and the one with Exclusives.

When did it Change? Wii era
 
Why is it so hard for them to admit Sony won? All these mental gymnastics because of the pain in admitting they were wrong cheerleading for MS and Sony cooked all their asses :messenger_tears_of_joy: .


Gaming media in the West is so shit and they wonder why they keep losing their jobs.
 
Unfortunatecookie said:
Winning software exclusives =/= Winning the console war.

Why is it so hard for these goofball outlets to admit that PlayStation won, fair and square?
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Because hardware without exclusive games is basically a mid-range PC without the freedom of a PC.

Nintendo won because PlayStation hardware is now dispensable; it's very simple. PC + Nintendo is the combo.
 
This dumb narrative only gained attraction after they left the home console market after the failure of the Wii U.


So I want to be clear during the PSP / DS time frame at no point in time where people just randomly calling that a " home console" and acting as if it was not a portable.


This desperate backpedaling simply seems to be fanboys still trying to pretend as if they're in the same race as Sony and Microsoft when it's Nintendo that decided to simply do a portable with an HDMI out..that is factually what the Switch 1 and 2 are, no different then the PSP. That is a fact many of you struggle to get over btw.

That's like fucking trying to pretend that a company did not lose the "desktop wars" regarding PCs because now they only make laptops in suddenly the fucking idiots that made the laptops are now trying to say it's a "derrrr hybrid desktop with hdmi out" when that was clearly not what a laptop was called prior to that loss..

Calling something a different thing to desperately grasp at relevancy into another market does not make it so...

Where was this entire argument when the PSP has an to out through AV? The ablility to play the PSP or really any portable on TV prior to this, has NEVER had it lumped into the home console market UNTIL this company fucking lost that market and had to resort to just making portables.

So they lost that war...

Get over it.

They're definitely the kings of portable, but this desperate framing of trying to act as if they're in the same position as Microsoft and Sony makes very little sense.
 
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EDMIX said:
This dumb narrative only gained attraction after they left the home console market after the failure of the Wii U.


So I want to be clear during the PSP / DS time frame at no point in time where people just randomly calling that a " home console" and acting as if it was not a portable.


This desperate backpedaling simply seems to be fanboys still trying to pretend as if they're in the same race as Sony and Microsoft when it's Nintendo that decided to simply do a portable with an HDMI out..that is factually what the Switch 1 and 2 are, no different then the PSP. That is a fact many of you struggle to get over btw.

That's like fucking trying to pretend that a company did not lose the "desktop wars" regarding PCs because now they only make laptops in suddenly the fucking idiots that made the laptops are now trying to say it's a "derrrr hybrid desktop with hdmi out" when that was clearly not what a laptop was called prior to that loss..

Calling something a different thing to desperately grasp at relevancy into another market does not make it so...

Where was this entire argument when the PSP has an to out through AV? The ablility to play the PSP or really any portable on TV prior to this, has NEVER had it lumped into the home console market UNTIL this company fucking lost that market and had to resort to just making portables.

So they lost that war...

Get over it.

They're definitely the kings of portable, but this desperate framing of trying to act as if they're in the same position as Microsoft and Sony makes very little sense.
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EDMIX said:
This dumb narrative only gained attraction after they left the home console market after the failure of the Wii U.


So I want to be clear during the PSP / DS time frame at no point in time where people just randomly calling that a " home console" and acting as if it was not a portable.


This desperate backpedaling simply seems to be fanboys still trying to pretend as if they're in the same race as Sony and Microsoft when it's Nintendo that decided to simply do a portable with an HDMI out..that is factually what the Switch 1 and 2 are, no different then the PSP. That is a fact many of you struggle to get over btw.

That's like fucking trying to pretend that a company did not lose the "desktop wars" regarding PCs because now they only make laptops in suddenly the fucking idiots that made the laptops are now trying to say it's a "derrrr hybrid desktop with hdmi out" when that was clearly not what a laptop was called prior to that loss..

Calling something a different thing to desperately grasp at relevancy into another market does not make it so...

Where was this entire argument when the PSP has an to out through AV? The ablility to play the PSP or really any portable on TV prior to this, has NEVER had it lumped into the home console market UNTIL this company fucking lost that market and had to resort to just making portables.

So they lost that war...

Get over it.

They're definitely the kings of portable, but this desperate framing of trying to act as if they're in the same position as Microsoft and Sony makes very little sense.
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They lost the war, but you're way off base. Prior to the Switch portables typically had different games from the home consoles. The fact that the Switch plays the same games as home consoles with it designed for tv display as well as portable display distinguishes it from legacy portables.
 
If we are considering Switch and PlayStation as the same "gaming market", might as well consider Switch and mobile as the same too. In which case, Switch got obliterated.
 
TKOFromTokyo said:
They lost the war, but you're way off base. Prior to the Switch portables typically had different games from the home consoles. The fact that the Switch plays the same games as home consoles with it designed for tv display as well as portable display distinguishes it from legacy portables.
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Not really, legacy portables could be plugged into a TV too. The Switch Lite (no TV support) accounts for 25M switch sales aswell. People just have a hard time admitting that Switch attracted the majority of the 3DS audience and merged the two, and Nintendo lost the home console race with Wii U. If Nintendo wanted to enter the home market they could offer a cheaper Switch without a screen but even they know that it wouldn't be that popular as a home console. They relied on that 3DS audience moving on to the next portable and merged development cost because it was over for them in the home console space.
 
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Three said:
Not really, legacy portables could be plugged into a TV too. The Switch Lite (no TV support) accounts for 25M switch sales aswell. People just have a hard time admitting that Switch attracted the majority of the 3DS audience and merged the two, and Nintendo lost the home console race with Wii U. If Nintendo wanted to enter the home market they could offer a cheaper Switch without a screen but even they know that it wouldn't be that popular as a home console. They relied on that 3DS audience moving on to the next portable and merged development cost because it was over for them in the home console space.
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Well that much is obvious; it is why they went with the hybrid approach. But, at the end of the day, everyone (and by everyone I mean upset fanboys) is just dabbling with semantics to make themselves feel better.
 
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CentralScrutinizer said:
Well that much is obvious; it is why they went with the hybrid approach. But, at the end of the day, everyone (and by everyone I mean upset fanboys) is just dabbling with semantics to make themselves feel better.
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If it's so obvious then why are you laughing at EDMIX EDMIX 's post for pointing out that they're not in the same position/market as Sony/MS?
 
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Three said:
If it's so obvious then why are you laughing at EDMIX EDMIX 's post for pointing out that they're not in the same position/market as Sony/MS?
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Because I think playing semantics to cope is hilarious. Gaming hardware is gaming hardware. We will have this same conversation again when Switch passes PS2; hopefully then there's better cope than "but ItS a HaNDheLd... WiI u faiLEd and NinTenDo qUIt the conSOle market. SonY is sTiLl kINg."
 
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