Board 8 > Wow, people still have that much faith in Nintendo?

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I certainly wasn't expecting it to be doing so well in the poll.

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I don't foresee any of them in particular dominating the industry, so I chose the last option.

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I'm more surprised Sony is doing so well. Not sure how they will dominate when they plan on making another expensive console.

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Maybe some voters actually remembered that Nintendo has dominated the handheld gaming market for practically its entire existence and factored that into their vote. Nintendo is a much more reasonable option than the one currently winning the poll, anyway.

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"None of the above" is what I'd call the most reasonable response, since it lends to the more-likely scenario of multiple companies achieving multiple things aimed at different crowds.

You know, like what we have goin' on right now. I just can't really see a Sony-in-1999 level takeover happening again without some radical, radical changes to the gaming industry, which is instead leading elsewhere. And even Sony-in-1999 is a bit of a misnomer, because Nintendo was succeeding adequately with the N64 and an actual handheld and stuff, it's just that the PlayStation was outselling the Big N four-to-one worldwide.

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Microsoft is the most likely choice, but 10 years is so long that you can just choose your favorite and potentially be right.

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From: UltimaterializerX | #008
Apple is the only correct answer there. Anyone voting Nintendo is still living in 1996.
You believe that it is much more likely for Apple to completely dominate the entire field than to be faced with a 2022 with multiple competitors? I dunno man.

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How involved are Apple and Google in video games today? Do they publish any games? Do they own any development studios? It's hard to imagine either of them "dominating" in ten years when they still have so many rudimentary steps to take. Microsoft has been in the console business longer than ten years now, and they haven't managed to dominate.

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From: UltimaterializerX | #008
Apple is the only correct answer there. Anyone voting Nintendo is still living in 1996.
Why wouldn't Google be the correct answer?

Checked Google btw

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Who knows? Maybe in ten years' time Nintendo will predict the next big fad, dominate hardware sales, and then fade back into irrelevance a year or two later. Y'know, 2006-2008 all over again.

But yeah, "none of the above" is the most reasonable answer here.

From: UltimaterializerX | #008
Apple is the only correct answer there. Anyone voting Nintendo is still living in 1996.
Apple said they will never enter the console race.

Even if we don't factor that in, I'm not sure what Apple offers that other smartphone manufacturers don't.

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UltimaterializerX posted...

Apple is the only correct answer there. Anyone voting Nintendo is still living in 1996.

Nintendo dominated the industry more recently than 1996.

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From: ZFS | #014
Nintendo dominated the industry more recently than 1996.
Yep. Wii sales might have slown down, but they still dominated this generation. The DS and Wii have got to be the most profitable (and among the best selling) game machines of all time. The WiiU looks set for a far less historic flight, but on the handheld front, Nintendo looks poised to dominate Sony yet again.

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I think this generation has been two parts--one Nintendo, the other Microsoft. The Wii carried the industry in the first half, but the 360 has been doing it the second half. Wii still sold more, but the difference between the 360 and Wii in the US is only 5 million.

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It's less about having faith in Nintendo and more about assuming that if anyone is likely to stand out via some weird gimmick, it's Nintendo.

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Even then, I don't see Apple literally dominating to the point that it's on the indisputable top in every spectrum of the gaming industry, even in ten years, which is how I, at least, read the poll.

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From: UltimaterializerX | #020
Nintendo fans naturally don't see any of this and only go "well herpaderp sales = quality"
Seems like the argument you're making for Apple right now, but I guess I'm missing something.

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18 years later NHL '94 is still the best hockey game. Glad I picked it up because I only played it at a friends house back in the day.

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I don't research this subject as intensively as Ulti apparently does, but I'm pretty sure I've never come across the word 'herpderp' in any report.


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From: PartOfYourWorld | #015
From: ZFS | #014
Nintendo dominated the industry more recently than 1996.
Yep. Wii sales might have slown down, but they still dominated this generation. The DS and Wii have got to be the most profitable (and among the best selling) game machines of all time. The WiiU looks set for a far less historic flight, but on the handheld front, Nintendo looks poised to dominate Sony yet again.
The PS2's still the best selling gaming machine of all time. DS is reasonably close second, however. Wii, meanwhile, is still trailing behind PSX and Gameboy/Gameboy Color. That said, 3DS apparently had the best first year sales of ANY system, period, so...

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nhl 95 genesis > nhl 94 snes

suck it nintendrones


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ice hockey nes the real top tier

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Blackhawks of NHL '94 forever

Roenick, Chelios, and Belfour the best

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I just never "got" Ice Hockey. It was always Blades of Steel or bust

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its still a pretty good strategy in 2012 too

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I voted for none of the above.

I've got a pretty good feeling about Sega.

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From: ZFS | #033

ice hockey nes the real top tier

this

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A word like "dominate" is usually reserved for the best selling or most profitable of... whatever it is you're talking about. Nintendo may not have been popular among hardcore gamers this gen, but to deny that they dominated (especially when factoring in the DS) is JUST WRONG. And yeah, the Wii might not even catch up to the PS1 at this point, but it almost certainly made more money than any Sony system. It had at least a dozen first party titles that sold 10+ million each, that's a ****ing joke.

And I voted for Microsoft. They've done a great job growing the Xbox brand this gen. They really have their eyes on the prize, and Western devs leapfrogging Japan benefits them more than Sony or Nintendo.

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Picked Google

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this is nintendofaqs, I'm amazed nintendo isn't running away with it.

The Genesis is poised to make a comeback you guys.

Everyone's mad about always-online DRM, shady digital delivery ownership rights, friend codes, racist 12-year-olds on voice chat, gimmicky tablets and motion controls... Genesis doesn't have any of that!

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I actually think that nintendo is doing horrible in this poll, considering that its gamefaqs. I mean 10 years ago nintendo would be winning with something like 65% of the vote.

It is interesting to see that even gfaqs is becoming less faithful towards nintendo. I'll be honest i feel that nintendo has been extremely bad since about 2003. A few gems here and there, but nothing like the mid 90s.

Apple by far has the best chance to dominate the industry in the coming years. Gaming for the most part is separated in 2 eras: before the crash of the early 80s, and after. I think were about to see the beginning of a 3rd major era that focuses mostly on services and portability leading the charge, not consoles.

Google and Apple are the dumb answers here imhhho. Like Yo said Microsoft has been doing this 10 years and still hasn't taken any sort of lead and I Google and Apple haven't really got their feet wet in a serious shot at the race yet, so I'm thinking at best you're going to expect one of them to be "competitive" in 10 years.

Microsoft or None of the Above are the answers that make the most sense to me. Mostly cause Microsoft seems to be the only major console competitor trending upward right now, so if you're betting on anyone it'd make the most sense to go with them. But on the other hand no company has dominated since the NES days really so that's probably the smart choice. I went for Microsoft just because it's more fun to have a horse.

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nintendo lost this gen in the "court of public opinion"?

they lost in the court of hardcore video game nerd opinion, but the court of public opinion at large?

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Well they're making a pretty strong case for it. Also, even if the Wii was unpopular among the hardcore fanbase, it had way more fans than it did haters. The haters were just way more vocal.

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From: UltimaterializerX | #027

herpaderp is how Nintendo fan posts read, and you full well knew I meant this. Grow up.

This seems contradictory...

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Of course. Regardless of how much the people here hate the Wii it was a huge success. Once they understand that it is a different system the casual fanbase will buy the Wii-U as well. The 3DS is already doing amazingly. Nintendo is also the only one of the 3 console developers that isn't trying to get rid of used games which will fail terribly.

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From: Lopen | #045

no company has dominated since the NES

102.49 million PlayStations vs 32.93 Nintendo 64s and 9.5 million Saturns isn't dominating?

154.2 million PlayStation 2s vs 24 million Xboxes and 21.74 million GameCubes isn't dominating?

But 61.91 NESes vs 10-13 million Master Systems is?

OKAY.

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