leatherhat said:
Rainbird said:
leatherhat said:
Rainbird said:
The console is universal, the controller is not. The hardware manufacturers can create whatever controller they like, and it becomes the job of the developers to support these. The three main controllers might be mandatory to support in a game.
So with Wii Sports, it would sell buttloads with Nintendo's hardware and controllers, but if you didn't buy a Nintendo console, you can just buy a Wiimote and Wii Sports and you're still good to go on your Sony console.
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You're contradicting yourself. Why would anyone buy nintendos console over sony's if they can buy a wiimote (or sony's version of it) and wiisports for either system? The only factor for sales would be price. And of course there's the simple fact that a universal standard would have an organization or board to regulate it and all three would be on it, and MS and Sony would have shot motion controls down.
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Maybe I should be a bit clearer with my scenarios. I'm imagining it this way: Controllers are not universal, they can be created by the HW manufacturers, but do not have to be approved by anyone outside this one company. If Nintendo then makes the Wii mote and bundles their consoles with Wii Sports, advertise it and so on, they would get the effect that we have seen now with the Wii.
But if people who bought a Microsoft console wants Wii Sports, they just go out, buy the game and buy a Wiimote, because that's all they need to play it. They already have the console.
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But that just leads me back to my point, why would nintendo get any benefit from the wiimote when sony and ms can use them on their system as well. The nintendo platform wouldn't be unique in anyway from the competition.
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It's not about platforms, it's about gamers. Nintendo still make money from selling Wiimotes and Wii Sports, and they reach a much larger userbase than before with their games, so they sell more software and controllers.
The main differentiators of the hardware manufacturers will no longer really be the hardware, but what they provide aside from that with services and the like. Microsoft can offer Xbox Live for example, and when they can do that on both Nintendo and Sony hardware, Nintendo and Sony will need to step their game up in that area.
Nintendo will still be selling hardware though. They'd still be selling controllers. And they'd be selling a lot more games (which is almost scary xD).
