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To: Joe NYC who wrote (96075)	3/1/2000 3:40:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1570881

Joe, <So because Playstation with inferior hardware was able to take market from Nintendo, you now think that you have to have inferior hardware to make it?> That's not what I said. Man, why does everyone keep second-guessing my opinions? Sony PS won because Sony was extremely aggressive in promoting software development on their PS platform. When Nintendo 64 arrived onto the scene with its superior hardware specs, it had relatively few games available for quite a while. Nintendo was also very proprietary in licensing as well, and many game developers just said "The heck with it, I'm going with Sony." (This is all what one Japanese friend told me, so I could be off a little.) In any case, superior hardware failed to determine the victor. So Microsoft will have to do MUCH MUCH more than just provide superior tech specs with X-Box if it wants to compete against Playstation 2. (Same thing with Nintendo and their upcoming "Dolphin" engine for that matter.) Tenchusatsu