Rpruett said:
... Nintendo is the odd ball in the bunch. However, when you look at the dynamics of Nintendo you realize why they operate in the manner that they do. Nintendo is fundamentally conservative because they have essentially one form of income. Video games. This is drastically different from MS or Sony. Nintendo is conservative in their approach because they don't have a fall-back option if their video games fail. This very same dynamic that has made Nintendo successful has also spawned a generation of Pro-Nintendo / Anti-Nintendo to some degree. It has created Pro-Nintendo because people in this camp feel the genuine care, thought, and to some degree small companyish attitude that Nintendo operates with contained in it's products. When you play a Nintendo console you can tell that it's all about video games for them and whether or not if you enjoy the games, you can appreciate the approach taken. The downside with Sony/MS in the market vs Nintendo is it has created in my opinion what I would call Anti-Nintendo to some degree. The people in this camp, feel that Nintendo has been too conservative / slow to react with various things. Whether that be reliable online gaming or graphical prowess or creation of numerous unique IPs. Their competition has been quick to act on these peoples complaints and this is why we have a pretty comparable market either way.
Nintendo in my opinion isn't conservative because they necessarily want to be, they are conservative because they rely on Video games and video games alone to suppliment their business. They don't have the resources (Well they might now after the Wii / DS), to sell systems 'reuglarly' at a loss with big beefy specs. However, contrary to popular belief around here, I don't think they want to be so conversative and I don't think they are opposed to acting exactly like MS or Sony for that matter. They just don't have the same circumstances surrounding them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
Nintendo in this generation has been anything but conservative. DS touch screen, Wii motion control are very different of what everybody would consider conservative, conservative is doing the same but bigger, as Sony and Microsoft have done this generation.
