Sphinxter said:
Try reading wikipedia, no idea where you would come up with that version of history. The real contribution of nintendo and sony was to choke out all access to their platform and relegate indie developers to inadequate pc's. I can only guess by that reply you were under 12 in '83 or you've just never developed a game and tried to join in their fun. I read up on psp homebrew and I must say I was shocked and appalled at the crap sony pulls, sold you a piece of hardware you are only able to access when one of the blessed vendors games crash or you feed it a tiff with a big nop slide in it, and yet you all just lick their hand and beg for another stroke and blog your love of them and call it homebrew, fans of that crap must be sick. Sad part is you have no exposure to the gp2x and what a wonderful gift gamepark bequest the world with, real homebrew and open access with no buy in, damn shame, really a great platform.
Yeah, I've read Wikipedia - turns out the elephants are making a comeback - 300 times the number of just five years ago. There's going to be a overpopulation problem soon.
The real version of history - In 1983, when the Famicom was released in Japan - Atari was already bleeding money - to the tune of $2 Million a day in loses.
source Nintendo even approached Atari for help with the North American launch - which Atari promptly denied.
source.
There was no chance of a come back for Atari. Atari was doomed. Atari had basically killed all the competitors - but since they were stupid with their money - they were going to die - no matter what. The only thing that kept them on life support for as long as it did was Time Warner's stake in the company. But that wasn't enough to save it long term. If it wasn't for Nintendo - the video game market would have been as dead as disco and much of an 1980s joke as pastel leg warmers.
Did Nintendo try to close the market? A little, with their "Official Nintendo Seal of Quality" program - but that didn't stop Tengen and others from making Nintendo games anyway.
Yes, I was 5 in 1983. No, I never wrote a video game (other than a couple text based adventures in Qbasic on my Tandy). By the time the NES came out, however, I had already owned an Intellivision, an Atari 2600, an Atari 5200, and an Atari 7800. Yep - 5 game systems by the age of 8 (I didn't get my NES until Christmas 1986). I don't think I am all that unfamiliar with the history of gaming.
So is the the reason you're a jerk to so many people on the forums because you were spoiled as a child?