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pokeclaudel on 18 January 2010
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nordlead said:
Rpruett said:
Going completely against the grain here...

I think people dramatically over state Nintendo. Sure, they have made plenty of innovations but these ideas certainly wouldn't 'vanish' or never be seen if Nintendo wasn't around. It has absolutely nothing to do with the company of Nintendo merely the people working for Nintendo generating ideas. You don't think these people would land elsewhere?

People act as if Nintendo is just light years ahead of the competition? Hardly.

Nintendo has lived off of a core group of fans and generally regarded as a very positive child oriented system. (IE: I personally have bought Nintendo systems just because they were a Nintendo system with Mario, Zelda, etc games...Gamecube sticks out). I think most software on Nintendo systems dating back to the N64 (Outside of Nintendo software) has been pretty mediocre as a whole.


I think you may lose some of the charm and nostalgia of not having a Nintendo...but truly the games would drastically improve IMHO.


I think that the argument that Nintendo 'invented' ______ or 'introduced' ______ is just a cop out argument. It's acting as if Nintendo had Einstein moments that no one would have discovered at any point down the road. Which is abundantly false IMO.

ok, argue against this. Nintendo always has their software group feedback ideas to their hardware group. Had Nitnendo only created software (which was the argument, not that they didn't exist) and their hardware guys gone over to the other company (Sony/Sega, and now Microsoft) would they have invented half the things they did? OR, would the software guys (like Miyamoto) said, "I wish we had rumble, but we don't make hardware" and nothing happened.

It's true that someone would have invented it down the road but the question is how long. Without Nintendo there wouldn't have been any advances until a generation later. The analog stick wouldn't have been introduced until the 6th gen and motion controls wouldn't have been introduced until the 8th gen or maybe even further down the road. The point is Nintendo bring innovation everytime they release new hardware while others just play catch up. No other company ever gets close to the ideas that Nintendo comes up with.