Maelstrom calls Yahtzee out... kind of... sort of... in a subdued way.

[Final-Fan]

LordTheNightKnight said:

Vertigo-X said:
Well, I disagree with his assertion that Super Mario 64 is sustaining innovation. With that game, just about everything was changed except for the same basic plot. Gameplay, controls, the levels, and the graphics were all dramatically different from the previous Mario games.

He meant it wasn't disruptive. It seemed to change everything, but as Nintendo fell to a distant second that gen, it was clear Nintendo got disrupted.

Disruptive innovation is successful by definition? 

Also, no, I disagree.  It seems to me that he is clearly basing his reason why those games are "sustaining innovation" based on the games themselves, not how well they do compared to other games.  So it only makes sense that "disruptive innovation" would also be about the approach to the game design.  "Mario 5 goes back almost twenty years towards the gameplay of Super Mario World and Super Mario Brothers 3. The game sheds off the 3d sustaining innovation entirely."  He's not talking about sales here, he's talking about game design.