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Nintendo vs Sony - What's the difference?

nintendo | sony |

As nouns the difference between nintendo and sony

is that nintendo is (video games|trademark) a , or other video game system made by nintendo while sony is .

nintendo

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (video games, trademark) A , or other video game system made by Nintendo.
    • Wanna play on my Nintendo after school?
  • * 1995 , David Gladstone, ed., British Social Welfare: Past, Present, and Future , page 274
    • There is nothing wrong with the accoutrements of personal affluence, but if the numbers of personal stereos, Nintendos , mobile phones and cars grow […].
  • * 2005 , Lila Abu-Lughod, Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt , page 280
    • These professionals are the sort whose children play with Nintendos and own bikes
  • * 2005 , Larry L. Meyer, No Paltry Thing: Memoirs Of A Geezer Dad , page 128
    • Franz: “How do elves make Nintendos ?” Dad: “You ask all the hard questions, don't you? I really don't know.”
  • * 2007 , Ilene Schneider, Chanukah Guilt , page 106
    • The only message at home was from my nephew, letting me know my mother was back home, safe and sound, except for a sore "Nintendo thumb".
  • * 2007 , Anthony Ham and Alison Bing, Morocco , Lonely Planet, ISBN 1740599748, page 34
    • He was far more interested in bullfighting, which was the Nintendo of the day, only considerably more dangerous

    Derived terms

    * Nintendinitis * Nintendocore * Nintendo thumb

    sony

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An international electronics and media company based in Tokyo, Japan.
  • * 1980 , Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus , Ballantine Books, ISBN 0345270983, page 16
    • Connie Chung, the pretty Chinese CBS correspondent, occupied the room next to mine at the Hyatt House and she was always back by midnight, reciting a final sixty-second radio spot into her Sony or absorbing one last press release before getting a good night’s sleep.
  • * 1993 , Martha Gever, Pratibha Parmar and John Greyson, Queer Looks'', ''Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Film and Video , Routledge, ISBN 041590742X, page 76
    • he mostly makes videos—virtually reinventing the diary form with his Sony 8 scrapbook.
  • * 1995 , Victor J. Ramraj, Concert of Voices'', ''An Anthology of World Writing in English , Broadview Press, ISBN 1551110253, page 297
    • My memoirs. At night I leave a Sony by my bed. Night is the best time for remembering.
  • * 1999 , Peter Cook, Archigram , Princeton Architectural Press, ISBN 1568981945, page 113
    • The common threads that exist between the fisherman and his Sony and the project above. Robert Smithson's 'Incidents of mirror travel in the Yucatan' are important.
  • * 2002 , Alexander J. Morin, Classical Music'', ''The Listener's Companion , Backbeat Books, ISBN 0879306386, page 98
    • Bernstein always understood this symphony, and his Sony recording was for many years one of the best.
  • * 2003 , Nadine Condon, Hot Hits, Cheap Demos'', ''The Real-World Guide to Music Business Success , Backbeat Books, ISBN 0879307625, page 34
    • Gary’s roster currently has Tritt and two new Sony artists soon to be hugely famous, JEB and Christy Sutherland.
  • * 2006 , Joseph Finder, Killer Instinct , St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0312347472, page 5
    • Most of the e-mails were blowback from the departure of our divisional vice president, Crawford, who’d just jumped ship to Sony .

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