which is the best company..., in the videogame industry? Options

[*kryogenix*]

For me it would have to be Nintendo. Nintendo is a 115 year old company now and they've been manufacturing greatness since the 80's. All of the consoles and handhelds they have released to date have been successes, with the exception being the virtual boy, as it was just something to keep the public entertained until Nintendo 64 came out. Not just hardware, software too. Nintendo games have been arguably some the best games of all time.

In my opinion, Sega comes in a close second. If they hadn't made some business blunders, Sega would still be around now, probably ahead of Sony.

The only reason the playstation franchise was formed was because of a grudge against Nintendo. When Nintendo cancelled the Sony cd drive for the SNES in favor of the Phillips CD-I for SNES, Sony got pissed off and made the PlayStation.

Microsoft sucks.

The earlier companines were good but they had one flaw: They all went out of business because they were too fixed on bringing arcade games to the home rather than develop new and innovative games.

Unlike the past, it costs millions of dollars to develop a hit videogame, that's why we're not seeing as much competition as there was in the earlier years.

[*kryogenix*]

Well i love Nintendo's game selection/character and the game developers that they choose, but you can't beat sony's hardware that they have been pushing out lately! Have you see the new PSP that they released for E3...DAMN. Nintendo's new platic-covered Nintendo DS has nothing against that. Nintendo even quoted that "they are not competing with playstation's PSP" (they just know that they are gunna be blown away.

wait, what are you talking about? the PS2 has the worst hardware out of all three next gen consoles. And the PS2 is pretty infamous for breaking. In fact, before the launch of the ps2s, the memory for half of the ps2s was defective. My friend has an NES, it's still going strong, meanwhile, his PSX and PS2 have both broke. Another friend has an SNES which has survived for ten years, and his PSX has only survived 3. If you'd like, i can quote people from OverClocked Remix who work at game stores. They always say how they had dozens of broken ps2s returned, and few, if any gamecubes and xbox's returned. The PSP is being delayed because of problems with the SDK.

Now, the nintendo DS is not Nintendo's main focus, yet i still believe it will be a contender against the PSP.

But ya...nothing owns the old atari system and games 

Are you kidding? Atari was great for beginning the videogame boom (props to Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn), but the games really didn't have staying power. The NES is what revived the videogame industry after the bust it had in the 80's. To this day, people still enjoy playing NES games.