Nintendo Eagerly Embraces the Next Generation of Technology!

[A Black Falcon]

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.

Yeah, I think some of this definitely falls under "learning the wrong lessons". The fact that the Famicom Disk System and 64DD failed has no connection with Nintendo's evident conclusions that people don't want harddrives or internet play... and when other companies (like Microsoft) show how it can be done, and well, it's like instead of listening Nintendo retreats and says even stronger "no we are right!!!" and refuses to change how they are doing things... whether it makes sense or not. More often these days, it just does not.

"hard drives fail"... well yes, but so do CD drives, and HDDs should mostly be fine for the several years that the console will really last, and flash memory does not provide enough space for one tenth of what they want to use it for.

"online doesn't make money"... but it's making more and more every year, and PR counts for a lot... Nintendo finally seems to maybe be realizing this, but it took WAY too long and did a lot of damage to them first.

Or how about... "we won't use that because other people are"... like why Nintendo isn't releasing something like EyeToy, I believe. Sure, innovation is great, but if someone else creates an innovation, why not use it?

Oh, right, because this is Nintendo we're talking about... :(