Playstation Move: or how else would we have made the controller?

[joeorc]

Rpruett said:
This is exactly the point. I truly believe that Nintendo never in their wildest dreams thought that the Wii would be an industry leader. When you look at how they have handled the system from the beginning they made a very cheap console with marginal upgrades in graphical appearance basically dubbed a Gamecube with Motion controls.

I think Nintendo came into this generation with the mindset that they will be able to sell their games to core Nintendo owners regardless of what they put out there. If only for the newest iterations of Mario, Zelda, Metroid. And if they keep the costs of their system down, then it won't hurt them if they don't sell 50 million consoles.

Nintendo took a chance at motion controls because of this philosophy. They have a core fanbase that won't go away anytime soon. Plus they have always had the family friendly, kid friendly vibe about them. They were in a position that the market leader(Sony/PS2) and (Microsoft/Xbox/Direct competitor of the same pie Sony has) were not.

Nintendo was a trading card company for god's sakes. They copied and borrowed all the way to the top. It's almost comical watching Nintendo fanboys spin it like Nintendo invented Video games.

 

Well the Wii is more than just a game cube with motion controll's

and as for innovation well Nintendo did drive quite a bit for home electronic game system's, them and Atari, and other game companies. in the early 70's and 80's all the upt to now, I consider that a pretty good track record for innovation. they have brought quite a bit to the industry, but they are by no mean's alone both Microsoft and sony have both brought their fair share also.

yea they have alway's been a game company though.that's one thing i admire about Nintendo, but Also getting back to the topic, I don't think they at Nintendo could have known How well it could have Done also because of How the Industry was and their View of Motion controll's in general, the Power Glove was cool and all but let's face it it did not set the world on fire.

I think what Nintendo did show was some gut's in trying to put out Motion controll's to try to change the Publisher's, some developer's and pretty much the Entire Industry on How Motion controll's was view.

what I think this post proves That Nintendo was not Alone it that IDEA, Even people at Sony felt that way, I t was just getting those other people to change their Mind.