Nintendo's Press Conference

[A Black Falcon]

Nintendo and Sega combined could not stop Sony. Right now Sony controls roughly 70% of the console gaming market (just a rough guess). If anybody can overthrow Nintendo's Gameboy, it's them.

Its not 70% if you count handhelds... :)

Oh, and they have the resources and a big name. But handhelds are DIFFERENT... you say you account for that, but it just doesn't look like you are giving that fact enough credit.

Graphics don't matter? Yeah I bet Nintendo would have had lots of success if they had just kept the SNES in the market instead of introducing the N64.

In the handheld market, idiot! HANDHELD MARKET. Like how the pathetically weak Game Boy got crushed by the more powerful Lynx, TurboGrafx-Portable (I REALLY wish I remembered the thing's real name... :) ), Lynx, NeoGeo Pocket, NeoGeo Pocket Color, WonderSwan, Game.Com, etc, handily, right?

Didn't think so.

As I said, other things matter a LOT in this market and you are just overestimating Sony's ability to avoid them.

The Dreamcast was a failure because of Sega's poor marketing, the lack of solid third-party support, and because Sega simply wasn't popular anymore at the time.

Yes, of course. Your point to the topic, then?

If the PS2 were as poweful as the PSX, it of course wouldn't have stood a chance next to the Gamecube and X-Box. The PS2 is comparable to the 'cube and 'box, so graphics aren't really an issue. The GBA has no chance of competing with the PSP, which is why Nintendo is making another handheld to combat it. It the PSP was released by any other company then sure, graphics wouldn't matter. But this is Sony we're talking about.

But the GBA is still relatively recent and has a very, very good lineup of released and upcoming games. Sure, PSP has better graphcs, and that'll draw some people... but the GBA will do very well by sheer momentum alone for quite some time... and of course eventually Nintendo will release a better Game Boy. No, I'm not too worried that the PSP will get over half the market. Far too many question marks to even begin to say that.

I had absolutely no problem with the switching characters in BT since you didn't do it nearly as often as you did in DK64.

But B-T has just one place to do each kind of switch in each level... you have to go out of your way to go there, then do one or two tasks then go back. Irritating, especially when compared to DK where you would just switch when you've done everything you can for a character in a level -- something that takes a long time -- or you get bored as that character...

And to me that is far, far less annoying.