fkusumot on 31 August 2007
Good read.
Personally I think you have part of it backwards in the sense that you talk about the hardware and then segue into the software side. Nintendo, at it's best, comes up with games that they would like to play and then creates hardware that makes it possible. That's the real innovation. Nintendo will always leverage their popular franchises, that's just business sense. When Nintendo gets it right they make games (often using their franchise characters) that can only have the definitive version on their hardware.
