>>38037450>Mario still existed. I didn't say Sonic wasn't super fucking successful, just that it didn't utterly dominatedSega was a legitimate competitor to Nintendo back in the 90s anon. And it wasn't a mere nipping at Mario's heels, but there a period Sonic legitimately could've dethroned him as the face of platformers and possibly the medium itself
>What makes you say that? I never said sports games weren't big sellers. EA still has that market cornered though, if I'm not mistaken.Right, so why did you say
>and EA never had a stranglehold over ANY genre aside from Football, As if to imply that isn't a stranglehold on a specific market but who care, since it's only sports
Also that's not the only market they have their teeth in, and lest we not forget all the prestigious franchises they killed
>And my point is releasing a third version at a sixty dollar pricetag isn't going to harm the brandDo you know how much 60 dollars is to a regular person? To a parent with a child these games are probably for? It's one thing to buy two games that cost 40$ each, it's another when you add 20$ more
> the rest of the industry pulls twice as greedy shit and still survives and gets "taken seriously"No they fucking aren't. Did you miss how EA and Blizzard are literally being investigated for gambling now? How that shit forced them to change Star War Battlefront 2?
>CoD at least appears to be doing well. Dunno about Star Wars, I've heard bad things.See above
>I'm not you idiot, I'm merely being realisticI'm being realistic too anon. Or at the very least rational, since if LGPE proved anything it's that this most of this fandom will eat shit and call it a steak if it has enough fan-service
>and its closest competition comes nowhere near closeYou're missing the fucking point anon. The point was if you continue to push your luck, shit will go sideways for you eventually. And the second people finally grow taste buds for this franchise it's going to hit and hit hard
