| Erik Aston said: Nintendo hasn't challenged conventional wisdom. They've used the same wisdom they've used for years. Go with the slowest processor, and let Sega take a massive chunk of the marrket. Go with the best money making format, and let Sony take complete control of the market. This "It's about the games" BS isn't new, and it's very short-sighted. Whether it will work remains to be seen, but it's certainly not some genius innovative tactic that they haven't tried before. Nintendo hasn't challenged the conventional wisdom with Wii? Good luck arguing that. I suggest you read Sean Malstrom's series of articles over at theWiikly.com, as well as the "Ask Iwata" interviews, at the Nintendo site. |
I'd like to add to this, Game cube was VASTLY superior to PS2 in every way processor video card ram everything. And Nintendo is pretty much built on questioning conventional wisdom, it just doesn't always work.
1st D-pad
1st Analog stick
1st Shoulder buttons(R/L)
1st 4 controller port console
1st Standard motion sensing control
that is ALL challenging convention wisdom. I'd also like to add most of them have become industry standards. Just because they're standards now, doesn't mean people didn't laugh at them then. They also tried many, less successful things, Virtual Boy(could have been good... but damn did something go wrong), releasing NES in America, R.O.B., Touch screen... etc.
