Does Nintendo Need to Compete With Microsft and Sony?

Where it gets tricky for Nintendo is if, say six months from now it becomes clear that their device no longer delivers on it’s one crucial advantage — the motion control. Only then will they be in a situation where they may have to be prepared to see the demise of their system entirely. And if they’re not ready for it, things will not bode well for them going into the next generation of consoles. For now though, the virtual kick ball is in Sony and Microsoft’s court.

Flashback: The Atari 2600 (1977)

During it’s tenure though and even after the crash Atari kept selling units until it was finally discontinued in 1992. Not a bad run for videogame console that has left an indelible mark on gaming history and is basically the reason we have a lot of what we take for granted today. Thank you Atari.

Flashback — Intellivision (1980)

With all the whizbang stuff we’ll get to see at E3 it’s a fine time to go back to simpler times when game consoles looked like this. A toy company makes a console When Mattel launched the Intellivision (Intelligent Television) it was in direct competition with Atari who of course got the party started a [...]