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Where are they getting 16% marketshare from? What's Sony/Nintendo's? Stats I read online paint a similar Sony(1st), Nintendo(2nd), Microsoft(3rd) picture but p

Where are they getting 16% marketshare from? What's Sony/Nintendo's? Stats I read online paint a similar Sony(1st), Nintendo(2nd), Microsoft(3rd) picture but put it more like 45%, 28%, 25%, meaning MS has hardly "lost", but rather is just in third place.

lockhouse 3y ago
That's very misleading though. Nintendo is in a very different market segment. They basically sit in the space between Xbox/Playstation and iPhone/Android mobile gaming. The N64 was the last console they made that attempted to compete on performance. When you take Nintendo out of the picture and look strictly at Sony and Microsoft, the numbers look so much worse for Microsoft. Unless they can score some important exclusives, I just don't see them continuing to produce future generations of game consoles. So all of you fighting this merger, I hope that you enjoy your Sony game console monopoly.
- worrycue 3y ago
  > The N64 was the last console they made that attempted to compete on performance. Should that be the GameCube? It’s successor the Wii was went they stopped trying to keep up tech-wise.
  - lockhouse 3y ago
    You're right, my memory on that was faulty. Thanks for the correction!
  - kbelder 3y ago
    It was the GameCube, in-between the PS2 and X-Box in performance.
rfwhyte 3y ago
I'd gladly take the L if it meant having a quarter share of a multi-hundred-billion a year industry.