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Originally Posted by hulk
Dude, I never said there'd be no CD-based consoles. I said there'd be no Sony Playstation. And then Nintendo wouldn't have been outsold 10 to one and they'd still be king of the shits today.
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If my sister had a dick, she'd be my brother. IF is a very big word, and you can't sit behind your computer and predict with any accuracy what would have happened 12 years ago IF Nintendo had made different choices.
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And let's see here, there's a HD addon for the PS2 (Memory expansion, much like the expansion pack) and all the consoles use memory cards in one form or another. Granted, some of their ideas have failed horribly, I never said they didn't, but with a company that innovates it's to be expected. I'm sure they're quite well aware that a new idea may fail spectacularly, but their successes outweigh their failures by far.
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Memory cards are not useless accessories. I get daily use out of my PS2 memory card. I do not get daily use out of the Super Scope I bought in 1988 which only worked with 3 games.
The HD addition for the PS2 allows users to play Final Fantasy XI, the only full MMORPG available on any console to date. FFXI is a massive title with over a million subscribers worldwide, with play value amounting to hundreds of hours. I see a real difference between the HD addition, and the Power Pad which let you play two crappy games and was never seen again.
Nintendo's successes outweighed their failures when they had no competition, 15 years ago. Sony began dominating Nintendo in the console market in 1994, they're still dominating Nintendo today, and even the Xbox has a larger market share than the 'Cube. If Nintendo didn't have exclusive rights to Shigeru Miyamoto's franchises (Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, and all associated products and spinoffs), they'd have nothing at all besides Pokemon.
Nintendo's only "success" is in the handheld market, and only because they still have no competition (the N-Gage? Please.) And next year, Sony is going to dominate THAT market too with the release of the PSP, which is going to crush the silly, gimmicky Nintendo DS into yesteryear. Oh, you have two screens? That's cute... we have Grand Theft Auto and mp3 support. Game, set, match?