Nintendo's wonderful strategy

[A Black Falcon]

ASM, the 400,000 people who have EverQuest accounts, or the million plus (mostly in Korea) who have Lineage accounts will be delighted to hear you say that MMORPGs are still "in their infancy"... that is just totally absurd. They were in their infancy in 1996, not in 2003...

And look again -- SWG is, as far as I know, about as from a failure as I can think of... sales-wise anyway. Features-wise? It's not the best MMORPG out there but it's a solid one, and will (like all of them) improve with time. I don't get you here at all... either you don't follow the genre or you have some strange criteria I don't understand.

But yes, Mario Kart Online would definitely be amazing, and Nintendo's stupid people in charge who think that losing money on something is the worst thing ever should be blamed for why it's not there. ... but OB1 and I have explained our position on that subject about five hundred times each. :)

EM... Nintendo's strategy isn't non-innovation, it's calling non-innovation or tiny amounts of innovation great innovation while belittling all the innovation that everyone else in the industry is doing. That's worse than just not innovating.