[citation][nom]Thunderfox[/nom]The industry crashed in the early 80's because games were painfully simple and repetitive, and half the games on the market were clones of each other.[/citation]
Half of the games were copies of each either in the Atari days because copyrights were not established for the then new medium. You know what comes off to me as that experience? Mobile gaming. A sea of copycats and garbage with a few gems in there if you're willing to wallow through the muck.
[citation][nom]clikes2004[/nom]I would love it so much if Nintendo and Sony switched to making software for the PC's only. I want to play Super Smash Bros. on my powerful PC so bad. Nintendo hasn't been up to par with graphics lately and they have 66% percent of the games that I love the most.[/citation]
They don't consider graphics to be a priority. Their priority is making an experience which is fun and allows people to come together. If I want to see a photorealistic Mario I'll go rent a Ron Jeremy film.
[citation][nom]Vorador2[/nom]You know, someone forgot that Ninty also makes a portable console, and that one is doing quite well AFAIK.[/citation]
They also tend to forget the world doesn't revolve around the U.S. Nintendo does very well in Japan, their primary market. Their IPs are much stronger over there, Nintendo tends to have first dibs on Monster Hunter and gets the Dragon Quest titles on their system, both of which sell far better on the other side of the Pacific. People have said that the Wii U isn't moving well over there, take a look at the system's current catalog and it's a lot of titles that aren't popular in Japan. Those sales figures are going to skyrocket with the SMT vs FIre Emblem title they're working on and the upcoming new console version of MH Ultimate.
I do agree with Cliff though. I'm anticipating this E3 quite a bit. Two new consoles from established players with the third bringing out their first year lineup, several upstarts, and the development community is all over the place with various purchase models, AAA and independent developers left and right forming and folding...gaming is a mess right now. This gen isn't about pretty graphics, it's about finding a model which will make both consumers and developers happy.