[quote name='AdultLink']Wah, wah, you bashed my favorite console, wah wah.
When a company gets conceited, thinks people will buy anything just because it has their name on it (basically what Nintendo did), then yes, they are destined to fail. It's the same damn thing that happened during the video game crash.
And yes, journalists are quite important. You don't need every journalist to survive, but when all journalists turn from your console, every console that this has happened to has failed.[/QUOTE]
Sorry, I need to correct your point here. The video game crash of '83 had nothing to do with brand name. In fact, it was partly due to lack of brand name recognition. Allow me to explain:
Atari's console policy was that anyone could develop and distribute games for it; without restriction (recall wonderful titles like Custer's Revenge, etc.) This seems on the surface like it provides a benefit; because of the ease of development and distribution, but in practice, it turned out horribly. Everyone and their mother opened a development studio (including Chuck Wagon dog food), and the market was flooded with product. The problem was, with no quality controls, the overwhelming majority of what was hitting the shelves was terrible. Prices plummeted on garbage, and despite the fact that good software was still being developed, people who entered the store could buy one piece of quality software at normal price, or grab 15 piece of garbage from the discount bin for the same price. Granted, there was a factor of Atari arrogance (producing more cartridges than there were systems in home), but the overall crash was due to total inability to control the product.
Also, even if it were the case that brand name had anything to do with it, it's not particularly relevant to your argument.