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ShadowSnake on 14 March 2010
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Garnett said:
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Sony may have been deving it but Nintendo brought it to the consoles first, even if Sony did invent it.

Nintendo took the risk of it flopping and it was a huge success, Sony obviously wasnt gonna do it.

Same with the MS surface, even if MS did do it first the Apple Ipad will be the first on the market, therefore MS is coping them.

i agree with you, but what i think theyre trying to say is that sony had the idea of a wand already. the fact is everyone just keeps showing those two comparison shots and saying cmon look at them, it's a "blatant ripoff". no one's denying that nintendo took the risk, made it mainstream and is therefore the one's being copied. but the fact that ppl are just using the hey its a ripoff because "its a wiimote+ball+nunchuk" as the reason for it being a copy is what the op is showing is not true. sony had that idea already.

i mean like you invest money into r&d. come up with an idea. obviously they decided not to go with it. but nintendo now comes along. has huge success with it. now sony and ms are following suite. if you're sony, wouldn't you copy nintendo also? you dun needa invest into r&d for a totally new product. and plus now you can bank off the huge wii success by having multiplat games shared with the wii w/out any risk. it's the only logical decision

EDIT: oh and btw, i am of the opinion that it's kinda too late for sony and ms to profit off of this, this gen. this ship has sailed. which is why if they were to do it, i see the "similar to the nintendo" product being the most logical decision

Sony may of had the MOVE already to go but they didnt launch it, therefore Nintendo took it and ran. 

Its a rip off.. Its not like

 

(2004 or 2005)

Sony CEO #1- Hey guys we have this Motion controller called MOVE and it could be a huge sales success, What do you think?

Sony CEO # 2- No Motion controlled games will never be a huge success, You think the PS2 sold 140 million with waggling technology?

E3 2006( or 2005 i forgot) Nintendo's Reggie - Ladies and Gentlemen we have the Wii, its a motion contolled system for the family.

Sony CEO #1- Guys they have the motion controlled system, we should include the MOVE with the purchase of every PS3

Sony CEO # 2- No were not gonna take that big of a risk, instead we will include six axis built into the controller of every PS3.

 

2009 and the Wii is 40 million units ahead of the PS3

E3 2009 and after the flop of Six Axis (I mean really few games use it, im calling it a flop)

Sony CEO  - Well ladies and gentlemen, here is the PS MOVE! 

 

lol ok first off. only a bad company needs two ceo's. (hadda say it)

and this is where we differ. see there's a diff. between a rip-off of a product and copying an idea. sony copied and followed this trend created by nintendo. but they're not ripping off anything. they created the product a long time ago. by your logic nintendo ripped off the whole idea of home video games from magnavox, atari and others and before that, they ripped off the idea of trading/playing cards from the tobacco and gum companies who printed baseball players on cards.

i don't understand why ppl have such a big problem with takign a good idea and trying to improve on it. it adds competition. now both sony and more importantly nintendo need to look ahead to something better to grab the market share come next gen.

I didnt know what to put for the CEO part.

 Nintendo took the risk and made it popular, Sony is doing it just because its popular, not because they want to be innovative.

Its a rip off, and no one said Rip offs are bad.

Copied = Rip off

Btw im all for competition. 

ya i follow what you're saying but last time i checked nintendo wasn't in the "making you you happy" or the "i only want to be be innovative" business. they're all in it for the money. don't ever forget that. nintendo always tries to be innovative because they may want to improve gaming, don't get me wrong. but this is paralleled with sony investing a large portion of their budget on devs to make new types of games in diff. genres. but if there isn't money money to be made in makign these investments, these investments won't be made by either company.

but now say sony we're to come up with wtv it was. it's successful, you don't think nintendo would follow suite? or even better, what if playstation implemented an idea that was a huge flop but essentially had a lot of unknown potential for the gamer, i think no one, even nintendo would approach it, as if it were the bubonic plague.