Post by: couchmonkey on June 28, 2004, 09:09:02 AM
Of course that isn't likely to happen, Sony is a big company and the Playstation is probably one area where I'm sure it's still making a lot of money, but still, what do you think the game industry would look like if Sony went out of business?
Post by: nickmitch on June 28, 2004, 09:30:03 AM
Post by: Ian Sane on June 28, 2004, 10:03:52 AM
Though there's also the possibility of MS completely dominating the American game industry thus making American titles the only games that sell here. Importing from Japan would become essentially the standard among the hardcore crowd.
I would prefer a Nintendo/Sega industry myself. Experience shows that it's a swank scenario.
Post by: Bill Aurion on June 28, 2004, 10:08:26 AM
Where do you think the Final Fantasy series would be? As much as I hate it, Americans still love that trash...
But I agree, a one-on-one scenario would be far more interesting...
Post by: nitsu niflheim on June 28, 2004, 10:20:17 AM
Post by: ghostVi on June 28, 2004, 10:20:23 AM
With the exception of UK, of course, which seems to be more a part of US than EU...
Post by: nickmitch on June 28, 2004, 08:09:43 PM
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I would prefer a Nintendo/Sega industry myself. Experience shows that it's a swank scenario.
I think that if Sega made a come back then that would more than likly wipe Microsoft out of the game.
Post by: Shift Key on June 28, 2004, 11:17:55 PM
I don't think they're going anywhere, they just may have to reconsider their various divisions if the problems persist. It would take a major financial problem ala Enron to bring down a multinational company like Sony.
Post by: Caillan on June 28, 2004, 11:59:43 PM
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I think that if Sega made a come back then that would more than likly wipe Microsoft out of the game.
I disagree. MS picks up the cool kids with their 'high-tech' system design and 'mature' games. Even a lot of Sony's market seems to trend to this, and games overall are slowly going this way as well. Ever wonder why retro has become som popular with the hard-core crowd, yet flys over the head of casual gamers? The first time I played Megaman was a week ago; I hold no nostalgia in it. Yet it's the first game since Ikaruga that lept up and caught my attention. Anyway, my point is that nintendo and Sega both have an unshakable reputation of producing 'old-style' games, no matter how much either of them deserves it. If the the cool kids want to play Halo, Halo 2, and DOA: Extreme Beach Volleyball, their interest in old-school games will probobly be minimal.
But yeah, if Sony vanished then MS would dominate the North American games market. As a gamer, I went from seeing Sony as the new kid ruining the industry in the 64 generation with their awsome FMV, to now seeing MS as the new kid ruining the industry with their awsome games - well, game - that promotes little more than gore and some basic reflex skills. At least in ye olde days the twitch games were forced to vary gameplay instead of just graphics. Now it's just like a fast-paced graphical adventure: point, click, point, click, point, click, point, click, point, click.
Post by: couchmonkey on June 29, 2004, 08:07:09 AM
I don't think Sony is going anywhere, it's a huge company and if it did "die" it would be over the course of years or even decades, but it's interesting to imagine what would happen if the dominant hardware company in the videogame industry was suddenly taken out of the equation.
Post by: Uncle Rich AiAi on June 29, 2004, 10:38:05 PM
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Post by: Termin8Anakin on June 30, 2004, 04:25:56 AM
But I think people are actually starting to see things the way we see them though, with the onslaught of crap that Atari have gotten with Driv3r (Driver 3).
What Nintendo is doing seems to be more than ever something that seems to be vital to liven up and 'save', if you will, the flailing industry.
I think that with the elimination of Sony, those companies that do nothing but follow trends are going to move to Xbox, seeing that it will then be the 'cool' console. By that time though, people will HOPEFULLY realise that those kind of games are nothing special, and would make the move to Nintendo, especially with the flak that Driv3r got.
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