Nintendo, XBox or PlayStation

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My short History of The Console Wars and The Rise and Fall of the Nintendo Empire

Nintendo ruled the waves for many years, Along came Sega but they soon lost their way with poor graphics and an endless release of new systems (before you even bought two games for the last one!).  Nintendo had won the battle…  or so it seemed.  No one cared about SEGA CD / SEGA 32X / SEGA SATURN / SEGA DREAMCAST / SEGA… I just don’t care anymore and have stopped giving you $300 every 6 months… When I can STILL get NEW games for my old SUPER NINTENDO.

A new comer had entered the fray; SONY surprised everyone with PS1 and their more gritty Adult games (MOH was one you remember).  The graphics were more polygon than Nintendo but the content was more mainstream… Blood, Gore, borderline language.  The titles just kept on coming and soon SONY replaced SEGA as the #2 console in the galaxy.

Then came PS2.  The work horse of the Gaming world for more than 5 years!  This was the system that just kept on giving.  It was a DVD player also and it used CDs rather than cartridges (still being used by Nintendo 64).  Nintendo began to lose market share and more and more big name software companies gave SONY exclusive rights to great adult games like GTA and MOH.

Nintendo entered a DARK TIME and tried to compete with the release of the GAME CUBE…  but the Empire had long fallen and the CUBE was found to be to “square” for the new age of gamer.  To make matters worse the software giant MICROSOFT had just ventured out with the XBOX taking more gamers from the once powerful Nintendo.  Nintendo Power magazine which was once a power and voice in the gaming universe with news on the Hottest games was now more of a “remember this great game?” sort of Newsletter.  If it was not for the sideshow market of hand held gaming and the success of NINTENDO DS…  the great giant and once leader of the industry might have perished.

Then came the so called “Next Generation Systems”.  PS3, with built in Blu-ray.  The 7 processor XBOX 360 and its huge XBOX LIVE Network.  These fairly recent comers to the show had become the leaders.  Even SEGA was now just producing Arcade games and polished re-runs for Nintendo!  (Sonic on Nintendo!!!  no!!  iT IS TRUE).  When News of Nintendo’s new system Wii hit, everyone remembered GAME CUBE and scoffed…  even with fond memories of past games and Nintendo glory in thier Childhood…  Nintendo was almost given up for dead…

BUT…  The Wii turned out to be something VERY different from the Mega systems of the Next Gen.  It was interactive, it was fun and it was innovative!  You would find yourself lifted from your old couch (The same one you sat in 20 years ago when you beat Legend of Zelda!) and playing a NEW type of Game.  It had something for everyone, the young, the Old… the Hard Core.  Live action games and rebuilt Classics were somehow different on the Wii and you could play WITH friends.  A sweat could be broken during a sword fight…  A golf swing perfected during an evening…  A few pounds lost after years of sitting and playing PS2.

Soon the Mega systems took notice and tried to copy the innovations.  But Nintendo was once again recognized as an industry leader and innovator in Home Video Game entertainment.  Now the Wii sits beside an XBOX or a PS3 in most homes.  Not in direct competition with the Mega system of your choice…  but something you enjoy with your children, even your parents.  And something that makes you feel like that kid again playing Donkey Kong or Duck Hunt for the very first time.

Jeremy

I’m not spamming just trying to make you change your mind.

I also love that you call it the Nintendo Empire.

@LHoffman:

@Dylan:

I’m not spamming just trying to make you change your mind.

I also love that you call it the Nintendo Empire.

Spamming was more a figure of speech than saying you were being defamatory for defamation’s sake…

Yeah… sort of like the “Evil Empire”  :evil: … Although I wouldn’t say it is an “Evil Empire” because it isn’t like Nintendo has a monopoly on the industry or anything.

In my opinion, the Wii was a brilliant life raft thrown from a sinking ship. It won’t be a novelty in the next generation of systems, so Nintendo will have to get real creative again, or they will have to conform enough to give XBox and PlayStation some competition in the male-shooter category… which is what really fuels the industry of gaming.

To be honest I don’t think that the Xbox 360 is that bad, its that fucking Wii! I don’t even get the purpose! You have a controller you fling around. You think your exercising, but your exercising on a programed electronic that’s really not doing anything! I don’t get the point of it!

2:21 in the video  :-D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioqxZitukVc

What about project Natal from X-BOX

see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPIbGnBQcJY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2qlHoxPioM

Do you idiots think it will actually work that well.

definitely Nintendo