Nintendrones have every right to be proud. In this era, only their console actually bothers to be one, instead of being a glorified PC that you hook up to the TV.
What does this even mean? The line between console and PC has always been kind of blurry. The only really defining difference I can see is that "console = plays games, maybe movies now too" and "pc = does that, plus other things".
If anything I would say the average console is not a "glorified PC", it's a gimped PC.
Except the Switch. The switch is more like a gimped smartphone. But the same basic concept applies. It's just hardware.
That is exactly why the Switch is winning. They actually make complete games that will run on the damn thing well, without having to download patches for glitches and bugs. And you can't get their first-party games anywhere else, so guess what, you'll have to buy a Switch to get them, which is why the Switch is winning despite being an outdated toaster that probably belongs in the same category as the Xbox 360 and PS3 rather than with the PS5 and Series X/S.
I mean, or the other option is "don't play their exclusives, there are more games than you could ever play coming out as it is". The "absolutely gotta have <IP X>" is what the consumerism is all about.
No, the console wars should have ended when Sega decisively beat Nintendo. This wasn't supposed to happen. The timestream, it's been altered somehow.
Sega almost beat Nintendo during the SNES-Genesis days, but Nintendo held firm and beat them back in the N64-Saturn war. Then Sony Playstation came in and beat them both with the PS1 and PS2, then Sony lost to Microsoft and its Xbox 360, but Nintendo regained its crown when the Wii U and the Switch came out with good first-party games while the new Xbox and PS4/PS5 became glorified PCs.
The SNES-Genesis days went to Nintendo for a few reasons. Library was one, not getting distracted with bullshit like the SegaCD was another. Marketing was part of it too - Everyone remembers Nintendo Power, for example. What's the Sega analog? Do you even remember? Does
anyone remember Sega Visions?
Honestly I think Sega could have rallied in the Dreamcast era. The Saturn... The Saturn was, sadly a dud. I'll admit that. I think it had promise, but it was hard to program for, it suffered from really bad loading times like a lot of the first-gen optical disc based systems, etc. Plus it was completely fucked over by the Sega CD and 32x... People had just spent a ton of money "future-proofing" their Genesis and now were being asked to fork over for a new console. But honestly the N64 was no great shakes hardware wise either, and for all everyone touts the games, the N64 library wasn't that big or impressive. Everyone fondly remembers the same small handful of games.
But the Dreamcast had potential. It was a good console, had capable hardware, was relatively easy to design for... But Sega of America absolutely fucked it over with what games they left in Japan and their focus on sports games, licensed games, and locally produced shovelware games. The Dreamcast was much more successful in Japan - hell, so was the Saturn, for that matter, but the Dreamcast in particular kept putting out games in Japan long after it was "dead" in America.
Exactly, that would've made sense. But since that was the time everyone was LARPing as a Viking, they decided to use Norse.
Hell, what would've been cool was to use Persian mythology and have a crossover with Prince of Persia.
Would have been too much political shit. Egyptian stuff is a hot button topic. I'm frankly surprised Ubisoft was willing to touch it with Assassin's Creed. Much safer to make your game about an angry "white man" killing asshole gods about him killing clearly
white asshole gods, particularly ones that have been cast as morally "suspect" already due to the whole nazi bullshit.
