Xade
Irrelevant Insight
pandamoan said:lol, pcp makes you physically violent, maybe you are searching for a hallucinogen? That seems to be your implication. Maybe you mean gypsum weed?
just a thought.
and nintendo certainly is a monopoly in the handheld market. they have no real competition as of right now.
and if BLOCKBUSTER isn't a monopoly, maybe my definition is off. There's no other video chain but blockbuster in california.
and blockbuster is a part of viacomm, which is a part of.....etc etc. so yeah, these corporations are in many ways by most definitions, monopolies.
but i will lay off the pcp, as it can really wreak havoc on your body, and is not primarily a hallucinogen anyway...
Nobody was ever disputing Nintendo's current market dominance with regard to handheld consoles. However, as DuDe put it, this is only because of nobody else entering a better machine to rival their own. Does this make Nintendo's 'monopoly' something to scowl at? Hardly.
To summarise what I've tried to put across in the last couple of posts, I think that it's wrong to simply group the likes of Nintendo along with companies such as Microsoft, simply because it's a different situation altogether. Nintendo aren't making it hard for anybody else to compete with them. Microsoft, on the other hand, are doing everything they can to stop the likes of Linux ever becoming overly popular. Thus, it would seem Microsoft, and not Nintendo, are the money-grabbers in question.
And really, that's all I've got to say about that.
