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We all know about it, some have called it a war of the consoles. I have decided that this has gone on long enough to see it as it is, a crusade. Understand that I am not complaining. I find it amusing and I only choose sides in an effort to save money. If I were a richer man I would buy every console that I deemed worthy of my entertainment center. I would also continue to choose side anyway but in this case (the rich, all console owning me) would choose to fuel fires and manipulate the console factions.
Truth be told I am not rich and I will likely choose one console this time around. If I hit the “big time” before or after launch day, that will change, but until then I choose one. If you are a regular you will possibly know who I choose but I will not state it our right at this moment, it’s more fun that way. I will leave you with this; the price game has been a factor for a long time and in all reality things are not that bad. I mad the graphic below to show you what I mean. The only one who has been solid about console creation and fair pricing is Nintendo and that has proven to do well for them. The rest are all over the place and some are not even around any more.
My favorite example for people who are upset about high-priced consoles is this; in 1985 Nintendo released the NES in the USA for a retail price of 299.00. Not bad right? Well, paying that price in 1985 is the equivalent of paying $651.59 for a console today. Just a little food for thought. Rather than bicker over a price, worry about what system is going to serve you best, worry about the price later.
This whole post has me thinking about some other things like Sega that I wan to talk about another time. Until then I hope this was interesting.
Thank you for reading,
Tom Dorsey
**Authors note**
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Love the graphic – I recognize some of the consoles, but not all of them. My brother was a die hard Sega fan back in the day, so the first Nintendo I ever got was a Wii a couple of years back. We had Atari, Sega, and Sega Genesis. Sega Gen is still one of my favorites – it’s so easy to just plug and play and not complicated, but the games are great.
I don’t have much experience with the Xbox. I play most microsoft games on computer, and I do love computer games. We own a Playstation II that we didn’t get until after it was way reduced to like 99 bucks and came with a game. It is a great console as well, and we still use it along with the Wii. I got the Wii for the dance games and because of the child friendly games for the girls.
So which one are you going to go with and why?
I used to be hardcore. As a kids I only went Nintendo but I got to play the best Sega games over at friends houses. By the time PS2 and XBox was out I had the following
NES
SNES
N64
Game Cube
PlayStation one
PS2
and XBox
I am now down to PS2, XBox 360, NES and SNES.
As for the new generation I think I will have to go with PS4. I fell in love with the original system and loved to original game lines that went out on it. I also like to lower price tag.
(side note, the first game system my family got and where I started was Pong)
Im pretty disappointed by both, and am pretty glad i brought my 3DS last week! Super Smash Bros.! take a look at my post on the subject http://www.robert-potter.com/
In my opinion, Microsoft still have a long way to go as compared to the other companies like SCE and Nintendo that are probably more experienced with the gaming industry.
Still remember that the greatest step-up of gaming was the wii motion control concept in 2006 that just brought the whole gaming industry to a whole new level with PlayStation Move in 2009 and Xbox Kinect in 2010.
Over the years, development has changed the way gaming is all about, nastily speaking, we get greedy in terms of expectations, which I believe is something good to push the industry even harder, sparking new phenomenon.
With the three big companies slowly diverging into their individual successor routes with this series of consoles (Wii U, PS4 and Xbox One), I do believe that they will meet with a controversy once again in near future. Looking forward to the next console battle that will once again transform the gaming industry.
I personally will still stick to my original plan of replacing my Wii with the WiiU for the experience and hope for an upgrade for the PS4 in near future along with more gaming titles.
I talk a little about the Wii and how it changed the game console world in the last episode of our podcast. It is true that they changed the industry. They also have been more consistent, putting out new consoles nearly every 5 years with a fair price. After I made this graphic I started to change my thoughts on Nintendo and I have a new thought for you and everyone else.
I think that the Wii you is an act of “slight of hand”. It is Nintendo saying look at this, it is sort of a new console and we added a tablet like device. It may seem like they called it in but Think it was an easy project to give them time to complete the next big thing. Thy put the Wii U out in 2012 so that means we may see something totally mind blowing come 2017. Unlike Sega, who ended up making a console way ahead of its time, Nintendo seems to have a feel of when the gaming community and developers are ready for the next jump in advancement.
I also think that when we are waiting for this Nintendo will finally hear the cries for new content and give us a whole new game with a fresh original look and characters. I am talking like when we used to get stuff like DKC and days before SMB. I am really excited to see what Nintendo does over the next 5 years.
Certainly agree with you regarding to Nintendo’s perspective of the Wii U tablet concept being an step ahead for them. It was just a new hardware and HD graphics. It really ain’t that great of an impact when everyone hears about the motion concept when it first came out on Wii. Despite saying that, I beg to differ from what the PS4 and Xbox One has in terms of new creation within that actually provide players enhancement in gaming experience. The PS3 and PS4 doesn’t really differ in gaming to me. I would probably be rejected but I would say that the PS3 is “Just doing fine” but Xbox isn’t reaching anywhere this year with this “upgrade”.
Back to the Wii to Wii U upgrade – I Can still remember the time when the Wii was released for demo, everyone was playing the Wii sports and being awed just by swinging the virtual golf club using the remote and having Fresh FUN, which was the essence of gaming experience.
I really hope that Nintendo will be the company that will introduce us the next phenomenon in the gaming industry once again with their next product. Probably aid to spark some ideas for the other two companies during the process.
I am almost positive Nintendo will push the next “new age”. In fairness to PS4, even though the major changes they are making are gaming graphic and social media, they seem to be advancing in the motion control end of gaming too. It looks like they will utilize what I like to call the “PS Probe” in more games to a higher degree and creativity.
As a social media addict I will use those share and capture features constantly. If they add in the ability to add narration when grabbing video I will be very pleased. Other than that the other big ticket item I want is Super Smash Bros and playing some Mega Man action!