| sinha said: No, it hasn't changed thinking. I'm excited by it. The Wii came out of nowhere. And by the way, with all due respect to Nintendo, they're not the greatest at third-party relationships because they're kind of focused on their own games. So we didn't really know a whole lot about this thing, and they weren't out there trumpeting, "We're going to broaden the industry." They just kind of let it happen. But that direction and that effort - I'm on a mountaintop cheering that on. And so . . . for us, there was a bit of a wait-and-see in terms of "Well, what in the hell is this thing even?" and "Is it going to take off?" But the minute we understood what it was, we began development.
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Partly right, partly wrong.
Right, in that Nintendo always tends to play its cards close to the vest, and likely got out the kits and stuff late to developers. Part of that was probably necessary - look how quickly Sony adopted their SixAxis after the WiiMote was revealed - but that wouldn't make it less frustrating from a 3Ps point of view.
Wrong, in that Nintendo has been trumpeting for years that they are trying to broaden the market. They did it with the DS, and they were saying it back when they demo'd Pikmin the first time. If the 3Ps didn't hear it, it wasn't because Nintendo wasn't saying it, but rather because they'd been saying it so long no one was listening anymore.
