leo-j said:
KungKras said:
Vanbierk said:
KungKras said:
Vanbierk said:
Mr Khan said:
Vanbierk said:
I love the competition that is currently present...But if I had to see a console maker stop making consoles, it would be Nintendo, because their games could be accomplished on pretty much any hardware, so there's no need for it, really. As long as Mario was still found somewhere...it wouldn't make a lick of difference to me
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Given Nintendo's design philosophy, that really isn't the case at all
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Mario games, Metroid, and Zelda could be performed Nowhere else?
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Wii sports, Zelda SS etc would not exist today if it weren't for nitnendo's hardware innovations.
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And wouldn't that be just terrible...
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yes it would be.
Also, there would be no Super Mario 64, no Z targeting system in games because OoT would not have the analog stick etc.
Your opinion is backwards. If Nintnedo stopped making hardware, it would have a HUGE impact on the innovations in both game software and hardware, but if Sony or MS who only relies on 3rd party games (or copying 3rd party game koncepts) anyways would have left, then there would be no impact what so ever, because the 3rd party games that they get would be just as great on any other consoles, and many of their 3rd and first party games would be even better on PC (Halo, Killzone, etc).
I'll say it again. Your opinion is backwards.
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I guess nintendo would have done disc based games, and 3d based games risking that people would reject a 3D mario, after sony took the risk first for console gaming...
also I guess nintendo came up with the idea of the "online gaming" interface on a console, and an "analog" stick on a handheld...
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You're right, Nintendo wasn't first to use a disk based console with 3D graphics, but neither was Sony. Sega was!
And don't forget that PC had online ages before consoles, and that Dreamcast and even Saturn had it before the Xboxes.
So the innovtion that MS and Sony brought to the table according to you is basically the interface itself for online on consoles, and analog sticks on handhelds. Sure, the online interface is a nice innovation by MS, but analog stick on handhelds? Come on, taking something that already exists and slapping it on a handheld is barely innovative if innovative at all.
So that's like one innovation worth noticing against a growing list of HUGE hardware and software innovations from Nintnedo. Wich leads me to the original point of Vanbierk's opinion being backwards.
