| rmarier83 said: No, I think it's the people at Nintendo who are afraid of technology. All of their consoles have had missing features (by 1-2 generations-optical discs, High-Def, Larger storage devices) or became under-powered. |
I thought everyone (who follows gaming) understood this by now. Sony and Microsoft lose money for long periods of time on their hardware by pusing technology the way they do. They cover their loses (year after year) due to the successes of their parts of the company. Remember you have to compare Sony's and Microsoft's gaming divisions to Nintendo itself. Gaming is all Nintendo does. It isn't a simple division. Nintendo could put out the same tech but if it doesn't end up being successful they'd be ruined. They can't afford to bleed money the way the other two do. So it's not that Nintendo is afraid of technology. They just wait until it's more affordable so they aren't running in the red. Sony and Microsoft lost tons of money the fiirst few years their new consoles were out. Hell Sony still is losing money on each PS3 I believe just not as much as before.
Nintendo actually acts like a business. They aren't going to do anything that would risk them going under. Many of these game publishers and developers out there don't actually act like that. That's why some of them end up closing down or being bought out after making one HD game this generation. Doing something beyond their means and not being successful. Massive risk while they can result in huge rewards also and more likely result in huge failure.
Their disc during for the GameCube actually didn't hinder the size of their games either. The GameCube processed information differently I believe. So a full DVD wasn't required. Even then there was no problem with doing more then one disc for a game if storage was a problem. That was also a pirating issue as well I think when it came to their decision.
