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thismeintiel on 12 July 2010
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Smashchu2 said:
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snfr said:
 

Wasn't Sony also disruptive with the PSone and PS2 in your opinion?

Anyway, just imagine the Wii2 is just an HD and 3D update of the Wii with much better graphics of course. If this is the case then I wouldn't know why I had to buy a Wii2 (except for the exclusives, of course) instead of a cheaper PS3 (then).


No Sony and wasn't disruptive at all with PS1 or 2, those were sustaining.

 

Except the next Nintendo system won't just be a 3D, HD upgrade

Why?

And if the next Wii is just an 3D and HD upgrade or not..., well, no one knows, but I think there is a big chance that it could end like this.

Double post, I'm sorry.

Sustianing Innvoation is making it better. The PS1 was better than the SNES. The PS2 was better than the PS1. Disruptive innovations are ones which doing it differently, like being more affordable, more customizable, simplier, ect. Here is a video one it. Note how he pulls out a Wii Remote.

If you want to look at it this way, then no one is disruptive.  The NES only improved on things learned from the Atari gen.  The SNES was really only a graphical upgrade from the NES.  And so on and so on.  Even the Wii was just an improvement on already existing motion controllers.  I mean it seems the argument is Nintendo always changes the game (or are "disruptive), but others, regardless of what they bring to the industry, are just improving on what Nintendo did.  That is just rediculous.

As far as real game changers go, each company has brought us something.  In the NES era, Nintendo popularized an improved D-Pad and the Start & Select buttons.  During the SNES era, Nintendo  popularized the shoulder buttons, as well as the four action buttons arranged in a "diamond."  During the PS1 era, Sony popularized the dual analog, as well as an overall control design that many have emulated since.  They also standardized disc-based media.  During the PS2 era, Sony helped push DVD into the huge success it became.  MS also brought about Live, showing how online gaming could be big on consoles, as well as a standard HDD in every console (something they have oddly abandoned this gen).  During this gen, which I will call the Wii era, Nintendo has popularized motion controls in gaming.  Sony has brought out a new media format that won't constrain developers as games get larger, with better graphics/HD textures.  And MS has brought us Achievements, an added reward for further excelling in a game.  These have all been game changers.