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Thereís no point in doing anything at all unless thereís other people/things involved, is there? There would be no point in having the Premier League if there were only one team in it. There would be no point in marriage if there were only one person. There would be no point in practically anything, actually.
The same goes for the console market.
If there were only Nintendo then they couldnít fail because there would be no one to beat them. The same goes for Sony and Microtosh... Soft. Without anyone to compete against they have no one to beat and no one to lose to.
They have no drive to keep bringing out better and better games, better and better pieces of hardware and better and better consoles.
People say that games, controllers, media hype... Whatever, is what makes the gaming world what it is. And there they could not be further from the truth.
If Mario had never been invented, Sony would never have needed to create Solid Snake or Crash. They would not need to create a mascot for themselves if their main rivals had no mascot.
Equally, if the PlayStation had never been made, do you think the N64 would have been? Yes but not quite so soon. Nintendo would have had nothing to beat and so would not have needed to bring out a new console while they were doing just fine with the SNES.
Without a motive, no one ever advances, because, without a motive, there is no NEED to advance. If Liverpool and Everton werenít such huge rivals, would the Merseyside Derbyís be as important to either team? No. If the N64 had no competition, would we ever have progressed to a GameCube? Again, yes, but it would have taken a good deal longer than 4 years to come about.
Think about that for a second, itís only been 4 years since the N64 was first released. On March 7th 1997 it hit the public. The GameCube was launched in Japan only last month. Why did they feel the need to bring out a new console so (relatively) soon after the N64 was out? Because they would have fallen behind in the consoles market. Thatís why. Companies make games and consoles to make money. If they donít have a new cutting edge piece of hardware, whereas, their nearest rivalís do, which one do you think will fall behind?
Why is the GameBoy Advance doing so well? For two reasons: 1) Itís a great piece of machinery and 2) Because it has no competition.
There is nothing handheld that even comes within a light year of the GBA.
Human nature forces us to want to beat someone else at something (Or is it the testosterone? ;-D ) Either way, we always want to be the best, which is why competition and rivalries exist. And it is also why the gaming world is what it is today and why it has such awesome prospects for the future.
RBS
The same goes for the console market.
If there were only Nintendo then they couldnít fail because there would be no one to beat them. The same goes for Sony and Microtosh... Soft. Without anyone to compete against they have no one to beat and no one to lose to.
They have no drive to keep bringing out better and better games, better and better pieces of hardware and better and better consoles.
People say that games, controllers, media hype... Whatever, is what makes the gaming world what it is. And there they could not be further from the truth.
If Mario had never been invented, Sony would never have needed to create Solid Snake or Crash. They would not need to create a mascot for themselves if their main rivals had no mascot.
Equally, if the PlayStation had never been made, do you think the N64 would have been? Yes but not quite so soon. Nintendo would have had nothing to beat and so would not have needed to bring out a new console while they were doing just fine with the SNES.
Without a motive, no one ever advances, because, without a motive, there is no NEED to advance. If Liverpool and Everton werenít such huge rivals, would the Merseyside Derbyís be as important to either team? No. If the N64 had no competition, would we ever have progressed to a GameCube? Again, yes, but it would have taken a good deal longer than 4 years to come about.
Think about that for a second, itís only been 4 years since the N64 was first released. On March 7th 1997 it hit the public. The GameCube was launched in Japan only last month. Why did they feel the need to bring out a new console so (relatively) soon after the N64 was out? Because they would have fallen behind in the consoles market. Thatís why. Companies make games and consoles to make money. If they donít have a new cutting edge piece of hardware, whereas, their nearest rivalís do, which one do you think will fall behind?
Why is the GameBoy Advance doing so well? For two reasons: 1) Itís a great piece of machinery and 2) Because it has no competition.
There is nothing handheld that even comes within a light year of the GBA.
Human nature forces us to want to beat someone else at something (Or is it the testosterone? ;-D ) Either way, we always want to be the best, which is why competition and rivalries exist. And it is also why the gaming world is what it is today and why it has such awesome prospects for the future.
RBS
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Competition always gets the best out of people and it's the same with consoles as you say, without the furious competition we would have no 'console wars' then again it wouldn't be so interesting then would it?
Competition is one reason why were playing the games we are now without no one to compete against we probably wouldn't have such ground breaking games to play on, games would probably just be like constant updates with nothing really special like say the FIFA series.
Competition = Good for game improvement!
Competition is one reason why were playing the games we are now without no one to compete against we probably wouldn't have such ground breaking games to play on, games would probably just be like constant updates with nothing really special like say the FIFA series.
Competition = Good for game improvement!
Thereís no point in doing anything at all unless thereís other people/things involved, is there? There would be no point in having the Premier League if there were only one team in it. There would be no point in marriage if there were only one person. There would be no point in practically anything, actually.
The same goes for the console market.
If there were only Nintendo then they couldnít fail because there would be no one to beat them. The same goes for Sony and Microtosh... Soft. Without anyone to compete against they have no one to beat and no one to lose to.
They have no drive to keep bringing out better and better games, better and better pieces of hardware and better and better consoles.
People say that games, controllers, media hype... Whatever, is what makes the gaming world what it is. And there they could not be further from the truth.
If Mario had never been invented, Sony would never have needed to create Solid Snake or Crash. They would not need to create a mascot for themselves if their main rivals had no mascot.
Equally, if the PlayStation had never been made, do you think the N64 would have been? Yes but not quite so soon. Nintendo would have had nothing to beat and so would not have needed to bring out a new console while they were doing just fine with the SNES.
Without a motive, no one ever advances, because, without a motive, there is no NEED to advance. If Liverpool and Everton werenít such huge rivals, would the Merseyside Derbyís be as important to either team? No. If the N64 had no competition, would we ever have progressed to a GameCube? Again, yes, but it would have taken a good deal longer than 4 years to come about.
Think about that for a second, itís only been 4 years since the N64 was first released. On March 7th 1997 it hit the public. The GameCube was launched in Japan only last month. Why did they feel the need to bring out a new console so (relatively) soon after the N64 was out? Because they would have fallen behind in the consoles market. Thatís why. Companies make games and consoles to make money. If they donít have a new cutting edge piece of hardware, whereas, their nearest rivalís do, which one do you think will fall behind?
Why is the GameBoy Advance doing so well? For two reasons: 1) Itís a great piece of machinery and 2) Because it has no competition.
There is nothing handheld that even comes within a light year of the GBA.
Human nature forces us to want to beat someone else at something (Or is it the testosterone? ;-D ) Either way, we always want to be the best, which is why competition and rivalries exist. And it is also why the gaming world is what it is today and why it has such awesome prospects for the future.
RBS
The same goes for the console market.
If there were only Nintendo then they couldnít fail because there would be no one to beat them. The same goes for Sony and Microtosh... Soft. Without anyone to compete against they have no one to beat and no one to lose to.
They have no drive to keep bringing out better and better games, better and better pieces of hardware and better and better consoles.
People say that games, controllers, media hype... Whatever, is what makes the gaming world what it is. And there they could not be further from the truth.
If Mario had never been invented, Sony would never have needed to create Solid Snake or Crash. They would not need to create a mascot for themselves if their main rivals had no mascot.
Equally, if the PlayStation had never been made, do you think the N64 would have been? Yes but not quite so soon. Nintendo would have had nothing to beat and so would not have needed to bring out a new console while they were doing just fine with the SNES.
Without a motive, no one ever advances, because, without a motive, there is no NEED to advance. If Liverpool and Everton werenít such huge rivals, would the Merseyside Derbyís be as important to either team? No. If the N64 had no competition, would we ever have progressed to a GameCube? Again, yes, but it would have taken a good deal longer than 4 years to come about.
Think about that for a second, itís only been 4 years since the N64 was first released. On March 7th 1997 it hit the public. The GameCube was launched in Japan only last month. Why did they feel the need to bring out a new console so (relatively) soon after the N64 was out? Because they would have fallen behind in the consoles market. Thatís why. Companies make games and consoles to make money. If they donít have a new cutting edge piece of hardware, whereas, their nearest rivalís do, which one do you think will fall behind?
Why is the GameBoy Advance doing so well? For two reasons: 1) Itís a great piece of machinery and 2) Because it has no competition.
There is nothing handheld that even comes within a light year of the GBA.
Human nature forces us to want to beat someone else at something (Or is it the testosterone? ;-D ) Either way, we always want to be the best, which is why competition and rivalries exist. And it is also why the gaming world is what it is today and why it has such awesome prospects for the future.
RBS
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