And here I thought that you needed games people cared about to sell your handheld.

Crying the loudest, but cant take the spanking.

Hm, stick to what they do best? Steal 3rd parties? No MS has done that. Music players? Oh yeah, Ipod. Televisions? Darn it, I forgot about Samsung and LG. Well, Im out of ideas.

Kinect and Wii are colossal failures, but a once market leading brand in last place robbed of third party exclusives isn't?

360 has the better balance.

Who's falling for the hype this time?

Wow. This place has changed quite a bit since I first came here. :D Where's the beef?

If Nintendo successfully uses Wii profit to acquire most of the 3rd party support that made Sony and MS somewhat credible, would it be unnecessary then?

If I were Sony, I'd be worried too.

[QUOTE="InfinityMugen"][QUOTE="Bruin1986"] What's "all in the past"? That competition drives excellence? That has existed forever, and always will. If Nintendo has a monopoly on gaming consoles, the company WILL get lazy and stop innovating. It's 100% inevitable. Nintendo only exists to make money, just like any other company. If their product is the ONLY option for someone that wants a console, they'll stop investing as much money and resources into the product because the customer is forced to buy their product regardless. "Don't contribute much on their own"? What? Microsoft has gone a ton to change the console market. Heavy online incorporation via Xbox live being the biggest. Halo, a 1st party title, is pretty much single-handedly responsible for the explosion of the console FPS that we've seen in recent years. Kinect, regardless of how much the system wars "cool kids" (with zero knowledge of the real world) like to mock it, is a really intriguing technology that has already been adapted to numerous fields outside of gaming. garland51

I'm certainly glad after getting spanked for two gens Nintendo has stepped it up with Wii and we'll see if Wii U can do the same. However Microsoft really didnt contribute much to the gaming market imo. Halo wasn't a Microsoft creation, but their insight on securing it for their system practically saved the disaster that was the Xbox 1. Kinect is also a creation that didn't originate from Microsoft but they bought to turn it into a hit. Microsoft made the investment in Live because they knew they could create a nest egg if they could get enough people to pay premium for online gaming, I'll give them credit for that. While 360 is a signifcant improvement over the predecessor, it was mainly due to Sony's arrogance and failure to secure their 3rd party exclusives.

You could say the same about Sony during the PS1 & PS2 days. And really, Sony didn't have any REAL competition during those two consoles because Nintendo, Sega, & Microsoft all fumbled so badly & because Sony came into the gaming division at the right time. Not only that, but they won on the PS2 mostly due to the DVD drive. They won those two gens due to luck.

If Sony had real, true competition like the Genesis Vs. SNES war, the PS3/360/Wii war, & the DS Vs. PSP war back with the PS1/N64/Saturn era, plus if Nintendo would've stuck with CD's for their 3rd console, then Sony wouldn't have even made it so far into the gaming industry.