17th September 2005, 5:38 AM
LOL, the fact of adapting or be left behind is something everyone knows, and its not what I find the shame to be about. The shame in copying in the world of oligarchic business competition like the console world is that you're a "rip off" of another system and can't for the life of you think of something better or perhaps something equally as good in a different type of innovation. Actually, that could probably be said of PC gaming too. Adapting doesn't mean you just copy people, it can also mean you think something else thats better or equally as good.
So... since MS and Sony haven't really done anything to make any special progress in between their consoles that wasn't previously stimulated by a Nintendo acheivement, except for maybe online gaming (although that was already a PC acheivement), I can jeer at them for ripping off Nintendo at every step, and even if they did rip off Nintendo and are more popular, they're still one step behind in the innovation game, and Nintendo still makes more profit than them.
So basically, when the next console comes out and Nintendo has done yet another thing with their control system while Sony and Microsoft catch on and develop a copy of the revolution controller, they get to be known as Nintendo rip offs. And with any luck, Nintendo will push the envelope during this generation to take advantage of this radical uniqueness and kill the competition.
So... since MS and Sony haven't really done anything to make any special progress in between their consoles that wasn't previously stimulated by a Nintendo acheivement, except for maybe online gaming (although that was already a PC acheivement), I can jeer at them for ripping off Nintendo at every step, and even if they did rip off Nintendo and are more popular, they're still one step behind in the innovation game, and Nintendo still makes more profit than them.
So basically, when the next console comes out and Nintendo has done yet another thing with their control system while Sony and Microsoft catch on and develop a copy of the revolution controller, they get to be known as Nintendo rip offs. And with any luck, Nintendo will push the envelope during this generation to take advantage of this radical uniqueness and kill the competition.