13th June 2005, 11:44 PM
Agreed, but as far as a company they are making the biggest profit of any game company. That says something.
Innovation is great, but at the same time you can't ONLY bring new to the table. Sometimes you have to stand on the shoulders of giants. Heck, you ALWAYS have to do that, so it's hard to really call any of the new stuff truly innovative.
Um... I wasn't really clear.
Anyway, Nintendo needs to pay attention to what everyone else is doing namely because everyone else is finding out amazing things that really enhance the experience. Online was the only truly new thing added to this generation, and Nintendo didn't even bother with it (well, that was on PCs long before, but I mean in consoles and um... yeah...). Now it's massive rewritable storage which allows for a lot of stuff. This is something Nintendo has been trying to support since the Famicom disk system, and now they decide it's not all that important? Well, to be fair Nintendo never did succeed with any of those addons, but all that shows is addons sell poorly.
Nintendo making their own innovations is great, but to ignore the innovations of the rest of the world is not a good idea... Well, that is to say, it's not something the 3rd parties are going to be keen on, which is what matters.
Innovation is great, but at the same time you can't ONLY bring new to the table. Sometimes you have to stand on the shoulders of giants. Heck, you ALWAYS have to do that, so it's hard to really call any of the new stuff truly innovative.
Um... I wasn't really clear.
Anyway, Nintendo needs to pay attention to what everyone else is doing namely because everyone else is finding out amazing things that really enhance the experience. Online was the only truly new thing added to this generation, and Nintendo didn't even bother with it (well, that was on PCs long before, but I mean in consoles and um... yeah...). Now it's massive rewritable storage which allows for a lot of stuff. This is something Nintendo has been trying to support since the Famicom disk system, and now they decide it's not all that important? Well, to be fair Nintendo never did succeed with any of those addons, but all that shows is addons sell poorly.
Nintendo making their own innovations is great, but to ignore the innovations of the rest of the world is not a good idea... Well, that is to say, it's not something the 3rd parties are going to be keen on, which is what matters.
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