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Originally posted by thatmariolover
Alright. Yeah. I understand what you're saying.
But...
1) I understand that there are monopolies all over the place. But there's a difference between a friendly, competative monopoly and a monopoly that buys out its competitors. Nintendo didn't buy out NeoGeo or Wonderswan's respective companies.
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True. But you can't deny the fact that they are holding any new competition down.
By releasing old technology they will always have a price advantage. If Neo Geo pocket became a threat to GBA, they could lower the price so far down that Neo-Geo would be insane to try and compete. Like I said before, if another company came out with Technology just as bad, it would be laughed off the market.
It's a double standard. GBA will never have competition it can't crush, so Nintedno will continue to release out-dated hardware in the form of a handheld system, sell it for a rip off price, and continue to dominate.
Nintendo is the main reason for slow progression in the handheld market. There is no such thing as a friendly monopoly.
Just replace the name "Nintendo" with "Microsoft" and "Neo-Geo" with "Linux" and it's just like the computer market over the last few years... am I wrong?
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2) I think that Sony would still be fairly competitive. But then developers would flock to Sony's console because there would be only one major competitor. The installed user base alone would be enough for devs to make that decision. Then Sony could just send us poop in a purple package.
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Well, it will come down to the classic issue that keeps some games from coming out for Ps2... development diffuculty.
3rd party developers WANT Microsoft or Nintendo to win this generation, because of the development ease. If GCN or Xbox were to pass up Ps2 in world wide console sales, Ps2 would immediatly flop (or all it's exclusive games will be multi platform).
The problem is, this won't happen because Gamecube is holding Xbox down (in Japan and Euro) and Xbox is holding Gamecube down (in US).
If you take away that third company, or mix the efforts of Nintendo and Microsoft, they would have a better chance of coming on top, and it would make for a more competitive war. (and when competition starts, games start to get better for some reason.)