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Back in the day, when we all had our mega drives or our snes,' gaming was a pleasure. Games were new and exciting, you were either a sega man or a nintendo man and in some cases, an amiga fan. THEN ONE DAY..........
BANG!!!!!
Sony entered the scene with their own little console the Playstaion. Due to Sony's massive marketing campaign, they introduced gaming to a whole new audience, the casual gamer.
No longer were people buying games for sheer enjoyment but for the sake of buying games.
A prime example is Nintendo, they produce a game of their own every couple of months and 9/10 times it's good. But because of Sony churning out mediocre games every week, Nintendo have had to rush many of their own games just to compeat with Sony. Sega have paid the price, who knows maybe Nintendo is next and that just leaves Sony and Microsoft, two of the worlds richest companies continuing to make ok games for the sake of making games.
SONY KILLED GAMING
BANG!!!!!
Sony entered the scene with their own little console the Playstaion. Due to Sony's massive marketing campaign, they introduced gaming to a whole new audience, the casual gamer.
No longer were people buying games for sheer enjoyment but for the sake of buying games.
A prime example is Nintendo, they produce a game of their own every couple of months and 9/10 times it's good. But because of Sony churning out mediocre games every week, Nintendo have had to rush many of their own games just to compeat with Sony. Sega have paid the price, who knows maybe Nintendo is next and that just leaves Sony and Microsoft, two of the worlds richest companies continuing to make ok games for the sake of making games.
SONY KILLED GAMING
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Back in the day, when we all had our mega drives or our snes,' gaming was a pleasure. Games were new and exciting, you were either a sega man or a nintendo man and in some cases, an amiga fan. THEN ONE DAY..........
BANG!!!!!
Sony entered the scene with their own little console the Playstaion. Due to Sony's massive marketing campaign, they introduced gaming to a whole new audience, the casual gamer.
No longer were people buying games for sheer enjoyment but for the sake of buying games.
A prime example is Nintendo, they produce a game of their own every couple of months and 9/10 times it's good. But because of Sony churning out mediocre games every week, Nintendo have had to rush many of their own games just to compeat with Sony. Sega have paid the price, who knows maybe Nintendo is next and that just leaves Sony and Microsoft, two of the worlds richest companies continuing to make ok games for the sake of making games.
SONY KILLED GAMING
BANG!!!!!
Sony entered the scene with their own little console the Playstaion. Due to Sony's massive marketing campaign, they introduced gaming to a whole new audience, the casual gamer.
No longer were people buying games for sheer enjoyment but for the sake of buying games.
A prime example is Nintendo, they produce a game of their own every couple of months and 9/10 times it's good. But because of Sony churning out mediocre games every week, Nintendo have had to rush many of their own games just to compeat with Sony. Sega have paid the price, who knows maybe Nintendo is next and that just leaves Sony and Microsoft, two of the worlds richest companies continuing to make ok games for the sake of making games.
SONY KILLED GAMING
sony killed gaming ey? well they will never kill nintendo, well as long as they keep on making all those pokemon games anyway. nintendo are making loads of money.
sony dont really produce any games do they? Near enough everything on the sony consoles are made by third party right?
Batistuta wrote:
> sony dont really produce any games do they? Near enough everything
> on the sony consoles are made by third party right?
yeah but you've gotta remember in many cases, Sony will get
companies only to make games for them. Such as Core-Tomb Raider 2 snatched right from under Sega's noses
> sony dont really produce any games do they? Near enough everything
> on the sony consoles are made by third party right?
yeah but you've gotta remember in many cases, Sony will get
companies only to make games for them. Such as Core-Tomb Raider 2 snatched right from under Sega's noses
Like in the same way Nintendo have got Rare banging out exclusives for them.
They didn't kill it they just changed it (We don't likes change around here though do we?)!
And in case you hadn't noticed Communism is beating a swift retreat to whence it came, leaving people like Sony, Nintendo, Sega and Microsoft to try and make money. Some of them succeed some of them fail, Some of them change the way they work to cope with this. Sega for example have moved their attentions away from the Hardware Market to concentrate on what makes them money, Games! All Sony have done is bring the market around to their way of thinking. And that is ultimately the way that they will make money. They don't do this for the love of it, they aren't modern day Robin Hood's catering for each individual's needs as and when they arise. If you don't like a game don't buy it! Simple as that, not owning GT3 or Perfect Dark or some other game that some Magazine has said is this weeks must buy is not terminal, you won't die from it or lack of it.
They say that every Dog has it's day and maybe today belongs to Sony but tomorrow could see Nintendo hit the dizzy heights from where they once sat and ruled the way Gamers thought. These days will come again and when they do you can sit there with a smug grin, laughing at all the little Playstation 17 owners and telling everyone how good the new Nintendo GameDodecahedron is. Untill then put things in perspective, Games are still good, machines are getting better and if everybody except Sony stop producing then it will make your Christmas list easier to write.
And in case you hadn't noticed Communism is beating a swift retreat to whence it came, leaving people like Sony, Nintendo, Sega and Microsoft to try and make money. Some of them succeed some of them fail, Some of them change the way they work to cope with this. Sega for example have moved their attentions away from the Hardware Market to concentrate on what makes them money, Games! All Sony have done is bring the market around to their way of thinking. And that is ultimately the way that they will make money. They don't do this for the love of it, they aren't modern day Robin Hood's catering for each individual's needs as and when they arise. If you don't like a game don't buy it! Simple as that, not owning GT3 or Perfect Dark or some other game that some Magazine has said is this weeks must buy is not terminal, you won't die from it or lack of it.
They say that every Dog has it's day and maybe today belongs to Sony but tomorrow could see Nintendo hit the dizzy heights from where they once sat and ruled the way Gamers thought. These days will come again and when they do you can sit there with a smug grin, laughing at all the little Playstation 17 owners and telling everyone how good the new Nintendo GameDodecahedron is. Untill then put things in perspective, Games are still good, machines are getting better and if everybody except Sony stop producing then it will make your Christmas list easier to write.
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