Valve And Xi3 Team For ‘Piston’ Steam Box

Re:Valve And Xi3 Team For ‘Piston’ Steam Box by ricardobeat on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @11:50AM (#5027020)

We had Megadrive, SNES and Master System. That's three.

I'm not sure I agree that the market can't support a variety of ecosystems. We already have PS3/Xbox/Wii, millions of people still playing PS2, iOS, Android (yes, they count, and outnumber the console platforms), and PC gaming. That's seven different platforms all doing pretty well.

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Re:Valve And Xi3 Team For ‘Piston’ Steam Box by semanticist on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @01:18PM (#5027507)

That's two different generations of consoles: the Megadrive was competing against the SNES, while the Master System was Sega's previous generation console competing against the NES.

There wasn't a meaningfully successful third console in either of those generations, at least none that I recall me or my friends ever playing!

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Re:Valve And Xi3 Team For ‘Piston’ Steam Box by bane on Tuesday January 08, 2013 @03:32PM (#5028318)

I think the poster is from Brazil, which had a very long and very interesting Master System history, which lasted well into the 16-bit era.

But you are correct, the SMS and the Famicom/NES were from the previous generation, which btw also has the same 2 ecosystem feature I've been talking about above. The Atari 7800 came in a distant 3rd to a distant 2nd dominated by the 1st place player.

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