Sony
>wants to make movies
>strong hardware
Microsoft
>wants to make ???
>strongest hardware
Nintendo
>actually makes games
>weakest software
Why can't Nintendo go back to the Gamecube era mindset when they focused on both power AND making fun games?
If you can remember, the gamecube was one of Nintendo's worst-selling systems. They don't have the platform features it would take to best MS and Sony and at this point it isn't worth trying. Nintendo's paid online is still a joke.
This thread is shit. That's not what I meant.
how do you think the consoles where they focused on power over game design utility sold?
I think it has to due with the smaller discs making it so really only Nintendo exclusives and a few 3rd party games made it on.
no matter now much exclusive fags act like they are the only solid reason to buy a console and without them the gaming market would die, the gamecube failed
Because Nintendo's handhelds sell like hotcakes while there consoles (aside from the Wii) haven't sold all that well for decades. Consolidating both their handheld and console games on one platform was a stroke of genius.
Nintendo seperating themselves from others is best thing they could have done. PS and Xbox relies on FIFA/CoD/GTA audience in order to stay alive. Nintendo doesn't need that. Not to mention their consoles are cheaper than others' (Altho Switch is still an overpriced garbage hardware).
Nintendo is saving gaming with a fucking 720 tablet
Think about that
Nintendo gave up on trying to be a competitor to Sony and Microsoft and is basically just doing weirdo shit since the Wii era for better or worse. They 100% are not going to change that and roll with it.
Microsoft wants to make game flatrate. And that’s a good thing given the upcoming price hike for all games
>Why can't Nintendo go back to the Gamecube era mindset
>22 million sold
>Half the multiplats PS2/Xbox had despite no gap in power
>Cost $100 less than PS2 but still sold like shit
Because the "Gamecube era mindset" didn't make any money. Maybe if more people had actually bought the Gamecube it'd be a different story.
>Nintendo separating themselves from others is best thing they could have done
This, 100%. They realized after the N64 and Gamecube that chasing hardware specs while Sony and MS did the same, competing for the same pool of customers, was a financial dead end.
>saving gaming
barely any local coop games
horrible online service
best games are just remasters
ultimate is objectively less fun then melee
no offical custom controllers till today
i think the only good thing that came from this console is the new legend of zelda if you can ignore the fact that the whole food system and a bunch of other stuff could be way better
>barely any local coop games
>best games are just remasters
Why are you talking about PlayStation and Xbox?
The toddlers and manchildren who play their games don't care about power.
Because when they focus on power over games their sales suffer.
Why make a powerful console when you can make a cheap outdated tablet you can sell for about the same price.
because making powerful consoles doesnt win you sales. The GC sold horribly, and trying to compete with MS and Sony is just jumping into a 3 horse race without being distinguishable from the rest other than a brand name
Affordability is probably a key factor for them. $300 is now cheap for a console, and even though all consoles start out selling at a loss there's a good chance trying to sell Xbox-tier hardware at $300 will be too much of a losing endeavor.
Or maybe they know that so long as they're in the graphics ballpark and the games are good they'll sell the same without the hardware investment. I've been on my laptop only for a 2 months now due to packing my PC up in case of fire evacuations and all the games my friends and I played haven't needed my fancy GPU.
>no matter now much exclusive fags act like they are the only solid reason to buy a console
I mean, in the end I still say that's true. A library of exclusives-only is almost just as bad console, but if you can get the same games on every system there's no need to buy one in particular. Gamecube still failed financially, though.
All wrong
Sony
>Wants to make the best games ever
>Strongest hardware
>Best controller
>Best third party support
Microsoft
>Wants to sell rent you licenses
Nintendo
>Wants to make low effort overpriced rehashes
>Shit hardware
>>actually makes games
>>weakest software
Mid-tier development protection. The Switch is being a safeguard of guaranteed sales for non-AAA studios, as most portable consoles have been before. Then, those games get ported over to better performance on beefier consoles (as has been with the Vita), even if they don't sell as well. Win win for everyone, I hope Nintendo NEVER goes on the graphics bandwagon.
How Sony could've won the generation:
>go back to Japan and don't get Westernised
>stop censoring games and don't make $70 games
>adding full PS1, PS2 and PS3 backwards compatibility in-house emulator software
>adding 100% PS4 backwards compatibility
>also full PSP and PS Vita backwards compatibility with physical support, supporting more games than the PlayStation TV
>a controller with pressure-sensitive buttons and rear touchpads as well as a rear button
>both digital and analogue AV support, particularly for older PS1/PS2 games
>Remote Play support for PS Vita and mobile
If a ragtag bunch of indie developers can make a good PS3 emulator, than a company with the original data and a shitton of money can make an official emulator much better than the unofficial one, no matter how hard the PS3 is to emulate.
PS5 technology far exceeds RPCS3's recommended requirements and a much better coded in-house emulator could outperform RPCS3.
Because you bought a PS2 and called GameCube "a kiddy lunchbox that I'll never ever buy, never ever ever!!"
Blame yourself
>Wants to make the best games ever
Nice bait.
Cute dog.
>barely any local coop games
Bullshit, Nintendo's the only company who's even bothered with local multiplayer for what will be the third generation in a row now, everyone else has been going solely online and demanding why Nintendo "hasn't caught up with REAL multiplayer, local is dead lol"
fuck, did PS4 and Xbone even support more than one controller per system?
>barely any local coop games
What?
>>Wants to make low effort overpriced rehashes
I'll take "what is FF7R and Demon's Souls" for $500, Alex
FF7R is the last thing you could call a rehash.
>>Wants to make the best games ever
Wow, THAT's what they're aiming at? This makes it even sadder.
I grew up on the n64 and gamecube and haven't had a nintendo system since. I do wish they'd go back a bit.
Uh huh, sure
Just admit that Sony fanboys had been clamoring for an "extra grafix" remake of some PS1 JRPG as gaming's holy grail for night on a decade and stop embarrassing yourself
if you DIDN'T simply just want the same thing over and over again. FF7R's reveal wouldn't have gotten that embarrassing fucking standing ovation and a "grafix!" rerelease of Demon's Souls wouldn't be PS5's premier title
I'm not defending the "grafix" angle but FF7R is certainly mostly completely different from the original, even though it's a thin remake.