Terry Bogard,
This response is directed at you...
Let me start by saying that M$ is not a newcomer...heard of a little company called Microsoft (a.k.a. M$; owns the PC world).
As for 1 million sellers...all of the ' Platinum Hits' titles are at least 1 million sellers! And, even though quite a few are not produced directly by M$, it was M$ that made the deal(s) to have these games released on the XBOX.
Nintendo is not even as big as Sony (90+ billion in worth), and M$ is more than 3-4 times Sony' s numbers.
And with developers dropping away, albeit somewhat slowly, it is only a matter of time until all games for Nintendo systems will have to come directly from Nintendo. Didn' t work for Sega...won' t work for Nintenedo...
I will give you the argument about creative licensing being somewhat restricted by M$. It has been a well-known fact that if M$ doesn' t like it, it won' t see the light of day. But, if it is a promising concept, it will be hyped from here to Heaven!
As for Sega, they did what they thought was good for them...and it has had mixed results. If they don' t start doing better, we may be looking at the prosepct of another offer by M$ for the ownership of Sega as a newly acquired development house.
...and Sega has a whole lot more creativity than Nintendo!!!
Only time, and game sales, will determine the destiny of Nintendo.
I hope Nintendo wakes up with concern to the manner in which their game systems are developed, because they are close to being out of business with their proprietary disc system and no online capabilities.
M$ listens to gamers, as well as developers.
Japanese companies like Nintendo and Sony have kept to the idea that they know what' s best...well, guess what? They don' t...
We all have our favorite company(-ies), but the truth is that the weak may die. You should be ready for Nintendo to announce the end of console production and their return (like Sega) to developing only software. The creativity will remain, just on various console systems.
M$ is a very strong company, Sony is a very strong company, and Nintendo is a struggling company...you do the math...
< Message edited by DaRoosh65 -- 8/20/2004 4:57:17 PM >