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Smashchu2 on 14 May 2009
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disolitude said:
HappySqurriel said:

A lot of people really dislike the success Nintendo has seen with the Nintendo DS and Wii because it goes against their belief system, and rather than questioning whether their beliefs were valid they cling to them and assume that the end is just around the corner for Nintendo ... While most of these people want superior graphics and more complexity to push games towards being an "Art" and think this will drive more people to adopt games, Nintendo has been successful with a system that produces modest and more approachable graphics, a simpler and more intuitive experience, and focuses on games being "Play" for people of all ages.

This is very nicely written Happy...but please consider nintendo today without waggle. All this success wouldn't be here. Graphics, games has nothign to do with nintendo sales.

Many people have said this and nintendo fans may take offense but Wii is a gamecube 1.5 with waggle control scheme...

Why would thier games sell consoles now when the playing field is even higher, when they didn't 5 years ago...especially considering that very minor updates are given these new games other than the new control scheme.

This article is saying that nintendo success is atributed to their games which is as crazy as saying that Sony PS3 success is atributed to bluray... nooo, its why it isn't number 1 right now.

No, you have it backwards. People bought the Wii to play Wii Sports. When Nintendo made the Wii Remote, they meant it to make software better. They were always thinking with Software first. The system's hardware made the software more fun and a lot more excessable. People would not have bought the Wii just for motion controls. There had to be something to use the motion control first.

Sony and Microsoft thought in revwerse. The thought people bought the hardware and then focused on software. They thought this probably becuase they were always the first to the gate and assumed people were not buying it for the launch games when better stuff came out. A "If you build it, they will come" philosophy. Nintendo's has always been "If you build it, they will come for the software for what you built."