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Fallen behind in what way? If you mean total market share, there's not much they could do. Yes, they *could* have kept Sony out of the market for a little while but sooner or later somebody else would get into it, even if Sony didn't fly solo. They basically ran the market back when they had virtually no competition but, when others started to get into the market, they lost market share. As for total base, keep in mind that gaming as a whole was expanding heavily up until around the ps2/xbox/gc age and then the number of traditional gamers hasn't grown as rapidly since then.

pringles448 posted...

Then SNES came out and their dominance just increased.

Well, no, because Sega gave them actual competition in terms of market share. Their base might have still been expanding as new gamers the market, but their market position was shared. The NES days was when the industry had basically bankrupted itself and the NES was more or less the only serious console.

When Sony came onto the market, they got their system out well ahead of the N64 and they weren't nearly as stringent when it came to whose games could go on their system. The use of CDs was also cheaper and the technology that they used was supposedly easier to develop for. Plus Sony had a major advantage over every other competitor since it was a heavily moneyed company with deep pockets which had made that money from *outside* gaming.

pringles448 posted...

Nintendo has fallen so badly that they aren't even among the top 5 video game publishing companies anymore

You're reading more into that than you should, considering that back when Nintendo was topping the charts it was first as a hardware company. They made tons of money off licensing rather than just publishing.

pringles448 posted...

It's supposed to be impossible for another company to overtake you when you have those advantages.

It's literally never been impossible to overtake a company in the lead. Keep in mind that other companies had massive advantages before Nintendo came along.

pringles448 posted...

No fast food restaurant will ever surpass McDonalds, no wrestling company will ever overtake WWE, no retailer will ever overtake Wal-mart, etc.

First off, all of those claims are completely ridiculous unless you have a time machine and have seen the future (especially in the case of the WWE which is largely driven by Vince's genius and, once he's out of the equation, the company's future may not be as guaranteed. Other companies have survived multiple changes in leadership.). More importantly, EACH of those companies wasn't at the top of their respective game at one point. At one point, they were also the challenger.

jamieyello3 posted...

Nintendo failed with the N64 because they had tiny storage. They learned nothing and did the same with the GameCube.

Not really an issue for the most part. And, in the case of the GC, it *did* have the same storage capability as other consoles because it could have gone multi-disc as well. More importantly, there's nothing inherently inferior when it comes to cartridges other than the expense.
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