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megaman79 on 26 April 2009

Im still surprised by the DS decision to go backwards with the D pad while going forwards with the touch screen. That probably sums up the bravery of that company more than anything else.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

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mjdans on 26 April 2009

nintendo are as good at making games because they make consoles not inspite of it



d21lewis on 26 April 2009
puffy said:
Nintendo consoles have always been designed with their own software in mind, that's what i love about Nintendo as a console manufacturer. Also without Nintendo the controllers of today would look VERY different..

Nintendo brought the D-Pad, Shoulder buttons, analog stick, force feedback and now IR pointing, soon to be 1:1 motion control, split controller and an inbuilt speaker and inbuilt memory to the table. I think their greatest hardware achievements can be seen in their controllers.

 

This is so true!



theprof00 on 26 April 2009

dual analog beats all of that. :P

seriously though, Nintendo has a point of doing everything different and then not following through with it later. What other amazing peripherals has it had:
power glove, virtual boy, super scope, running pad... sigh... I would say they are really at a 1/4th success rate for innovations.

As for rumble and wireless, they never completely followed through with it until it has been pretty much standardized by the other systems along with a lot of things Nintendo "invented" and then never followed through with.

There's this old saying I know, "if you ask enough women out, at least one will say yes." thank you boomhauer



d21lewis on 26 April 2009

One could argue that Nintendo's lowest point was with the Gamecube. That was the one and only time that Nintendo didn't try to pave their own way, and just followed the crowd. Every other console that Nintendo made broke new ground.



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Ganbare_Goemon on 26 April 2009

Some would say their consoles are great but the games aren't. Just a matter of opinion.



  Awesome trailer for the new Ganbare Goemon game, to be released in March, 2009 for... Well, it's a Pachinko machine with a display. Oh, God.

 *NEW SUPER MARIO BROS WII*:  Now it's gonna happen!!! Thank you so much Nintendo.

neerdowell on 26 April 2009

I'm actually the other way around somewhat. Up until this gen I respected them as a console maker but not a dev. Now I respect them as neither.



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Orca_Azure on 26 April 2009

Nintendo as a console maker- great. The games on the consoles- i'd go and say only 10% are worth playing.



hsrob on 26 April 2009
d21lewis said:
puffy said:
Nintendo consoles have always been designed with their own software in mind, that's what i love about Nintendo as a console manufacturer. Also without Nintendo the controllers of today would look VERY different..

Nintendo brought the D-Pad, Shoulder buttons, analog stick, force feedback and now IR pointing, soon to be 1:1 motion control, split controller and an inbuilt speaker and inbuilt memory to the table. I think their greatest hardware achievements can be seen in their controllers.

 

This is so true!

This. 

@Prof: you can't be truly innovative and successfull every time.  Your points about wireless and rumble are kind pointless.  Nintendo innovated and Sony incorporated these ideas and were accredited with creating the standard simply because they beat Nintendo to the market for the start of the following generation.  If Nintendo had fully incorporated these technologies into newer versions of their existing hardware they would have risked alienating the exisiting userbase. Now something doesn't necessarily have to be innovative or original to be great but you have to give credit to Nintendo for innovation.  I would hate to see where the industry would be without them.



Majin-Tenshinhan on 26 April 2009

Yeah, you're the only person.