WW Up!

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Avinash_Tyagi said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:
@Avinash and Metallicube:
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and have now accumulated tens million HW and SW sales without these novelties. I expect more that for this gen they experiment with the new devices and dev tools, but a true complete and effective reaction will be possible next gen, including all the novelties in the standard equipment, possibly inventing something new or also, like I wrote, choosing a mix from the new and old things that they think could differentiate them from competitors and cater for audiences partially and not totally overlapping. 

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No, see the problem is as I point out, you can't go half and half, the upmarket has totally different values than the down market and in order to appeal to one you have to basically shortchange the other, trying to go for both would leave them with a system that is appealing to neither.

 

Also next gen, Sony and MS will be even further behind the curve than this gem because Nintendo spent this gen building up the skills needed to appeal to the downmarket, Sony and MS have none of those skills, and it takes time to build them up, Nintendo will be able to further trap them in their shrinking box

This presumed impossibility is totally undemonstrated. Once the HW and dev tools are there, you can have dev teams working on new games and others working on classic ones. Flooding the market with Wii Sports rip-offs would give much worse effects than diversifying.

Uninspiredly copying Nintendo would be the worst mistake, finding some new value Nintendo didn't see would be perfect, instead, and as this possible new Holy Grail of gaming is still unknown, we cannot know what is it, yet, by definition. Thinking MS and Sony aren't working on filling the conceptual gap is naïve.