Lifestyle > Sports & Entertainment

Nintendo Is About to Shit All Over Sony In A MAJOR Way

(1/6) > >>

Trauma-san:
I think everybody knows Sony is DOMINATING the home console market right now... and Sony has announced a while back that they will be bringing out a playstation portable device, which of course is huge news since Nintendo has sat unchallenged in the handheld arena for years, after putting 11 other handheld consoles out of business with their low-tech Gameboy series.  Well, Nintendo has been making MAJOR moves lately, basically ensuring their continued dominance of the marketplace (they have 99% of handheld game sales worldwide currently)

First, Sony announced their PSP, and then Nintendo quickly announced a handheld system called the "DS", with 2 screens.  More details arrived shortly, and the device has a touchscreen built into it, the first time a system has utilized that technology... Nintendo kept rolling out news that the system was coming out before the end of the year, and Sony said theirs would as well.

So, Nintendo starts rolling out screenshots and playable demos of games @ E3... and Sony showed a mockup of the PSP, but no playable versions of games.  So, then, Nintendo comes out with a more tightly designed DS after the initial crowd reaction was pretty positive @ E3, and announce 100 developers (companies) are producing games for the DS, as well as lowering costs to 3rd party developers, so it makes it cheaper for people to develop games for the system.

Next, Nintendo fends off the anticipated arrival of the DS and the PSP from hurting Gameboy SP sales, by lowering the price of the SP to 79.99... which boosts sales by 70% heading into the early holiday season. 

Next, Nintendo holds a press conference revealing the final design of the DS (I mean, they are RUNNING with this thing) and announcing they will have 6000 Dual Screen's sent out to retail locations for people to demo, and that the DS will be wireless.  When asked about the PSP, Nintendo's president hints that Sony has major issues with the battery life of the PSP, and are ultimately going to have to postpone the debut of their system...

As we sit today, Nintendo's about to roll out the largest marketing campaign they've used for any system on the DS, and Friday, they're holding a press conference to launch the system and the games that will be available @ Launch in November, which include a Mario game, a Metroid game, and others yet to be announced... Industry analysts are speculating that the PSP is about to be postponed to not come out until November of NEXT year. 

On top of all of this, foreign exchange rate fluctuations just helped Nintendo re-estimate it's first half fiscal year profits up from 225 million dollars, to 415 million dollars. They're on FIRE, even the fucking exchange rate is making them money. 

Of course you know I'm a Nintendo fan, but It's just interesting to see two big corporate giants play press chess like this... Nintendo basically fucked Sony's whole world up, I'm wondering now if Sony should have just not even announced the PSP so soon? They're ultimately going to dissapoint by pushing the date back so long, Nintendo fucked up in the past with the Nintendo 64 by doing that, pushing dates back, promising things that never happened (Super Nes CD), etc. and that's how they lost their place on top. 

Thirteen:
it's a shallow victory, i never saw sony as competition in the hand held market anyways... now if nintendo can keep this momentum going for their home console....then i'll be surprised

Sikotic™:
The 2 screens are impressive, but I just don't feel alot of Nintendos games.

MANBEARPIG.:
yes on DS


Nintendo got the gaming industry in a consistent chokehold

Don Seer:
looks very cool.. however.. i was v impressed by gameboy advance pre-release info, then couldnt stand the screen.


and jesus.. its got 802.11b wireless on board... that means it can access a PC, the internet, whatever!!

my unanswered questions

1) does it have a lot of storage on it? can that be expanded? (smart media card? / CF / MMC )

2) can it play mp3s from that storage? and can they be transferred via wireless to/from a PC.

3) what does DS mean? (destroy sony? lol)

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page