The Battle Of The Consoles: From Atari To The Xbox

Posted by michael on Thursday December 6, 2001 @12:24AM from the breakthru-still-my-favorite dept.

msolnik writes: "There's been a lot of talk about Xbox, and GameCube, and even more speculation about the technology inside the box. However, the console wars are not going to be won based purely on technology. There's a long history of cyclical win and lose peaks and troughs for companies that have tried to stay the course in this business. Nintendo stands alone in having survived a number of generations of innovation and still managed to remain a contender in the market. Tom's Hardware has delivered this unique assessment of The Console Wars." Update: 12/06 16:28 GMT by M : Note that Tom's has updated some of the charts in the article - they note that there was a misunderstanding between Tom's and the article's author as to which version of the charts to post.

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There's no surprise that Nintendo is still in it by Afrosheen · 2001-12-06 05:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Nintendo's strategy:

NES: Super Mario Brothers and other kiddie games
SNES: Super Mario Brothers and other kiddie games
N64: Super Mario World and other kiddie games
Gamecube: Luigi's Castle and other kiddie games

I'm sure Pokemon has a stake in this somewhere too (the portable market) but for the most part, Nintendo is an expert at the 'wash, rinse, repeat' game cycle. How many years can someone run around as a damn plumber collecting coins before they simply tire of this style of gaming? Nintendo sucks but every year there are millions of kids who love it.