| 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. |
I think you’re underestimating the power of group-think within the industry, and how it can take decades for a single company to be able to break out of conventional thinking to make advancements. Knowing full well that 3D games are (virtually) unplayable with a single digial pad, neither the Sony (with the Playstation) or Sega (with the Saturn) saw the need to put an analogue stick on their first 3D platforms because they were so focused on producing powerful hardware; and they didn’t consider the requirements of the software they were producing.
As long as the industry believes that something is adequate there is little effort put towards improving it, as can be seen by the button layouts of the XBox 360 and PS3 controllers. Someone who is new to their system, or doesn’t play it regularly enough to have memorized the button layout, spends far more time looking at the controller than playing the game; and their death caused by a cut-scene which asks them to press the triangle button really pisses them off. If it wasn’t for Nintendo this generation, you would probably see Sony and Microsoft release the exact same controllers generation after generation without ever questioning whether they were adequate controllers anymore.
I think you’re underestimating the power of group-think within the industry, and how it can take decades for a single company to be able to break out of conventional thinking to make advancements. Knowing full well that 3D games are (virtually) unplayable with a single digial pad, neither the Sony (with the Playstation) or Sega (with the Saturn) saw the need to put an analogue stick on their first 3D platforms because they were so focused on producing powerful hardware; and they didn’t consider the requirements of the software they were producing.
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