/vr/ - Retro Games

Recently started playing FVI, it's pretty good so far, I like the urgency of the situation and the post-magic FF setting.

>>5756278
No way, Nintendo used to force companies to make Nintendo exclusives, Nintendo could be so bad even that they notoriously told Square to, "never come back" after making a deal with Sony. It also was cut short due to the speed with which the second era arrived, which Nintendo wasn't ready for either and made the Gamecube fail as well which was a disc-based system and practically what the Nintendo 64 would have been.
Sony sold their system as a cheap DVD player as well, something Nintedo never did. Sony's other DVD players were still very expensive back then, so many people bought the Playstation simply as a DVD player, which worked the system into many people's homes, which served as a foot in the door for Sony to get newcomers to try out video games.

Nintendo also took too long to release their games, as well as marketing young children while the avid fans were older now and wanted more mature games. Resident Evil and Sony were seen as the rise of mature gaming in 1996, you have to imagine going from the SNES to playing Resident evil.
Nintendo 64 also had Super Mario and Pilot Wings 64 as launch titles, after which gamers had to wait months for any other titles. Nintendo still did really well and won the '96 Christmas however, with strong releases and Super Mario 64 becoming a bestseller.
But after that it all went downhill and Nintendo had to struggle to return profit, which simply never stopped, Nintendo spent copious amounts of time and money trying to rectify the Nintendo 64's cartridge system, but there were tons of other problems that were pressing just the same.

The arrival of a big company like Sony alone was enough for companies to prefer Sony's business model and move away from Nintendo anyway. Companies were dying for young blood, and many companies had attempted to cut out Nintendo and be their own thing, Sony juat had the money and the people to make it work. People trusted Sony before the Nintendo 64 existed.