Nintendo considered 3G for 3DS

[Joelcool7]

haxxiy said:

Joelcool7 said:

haxxiy said:

Amazing how Nintendo always considered everything previously. Probably even the wheel when it was invented millenia ago :D

Nintendo said at the end of the last generation that they spend about 250-mill a year on developing new hardware. With all that R&D I can guarantee they've looked at every logical peice of technology and probably a shit load of tech we wouldn't even think of (Example Kinect, nobody would have figured that the camera technology existed). Or the Wiimote and its complex out of the box idealogies.

Fact is with all that money Nintendo does spend an awful lot looking into almost every idea possible. Not to mention their are probably corporate spies letting them know what their competition is looking at, thus causing them to also look at such technology.

Yeah but everyone does this, including companies many times bigger than Nintendo. And that's no reason for them to come ahead and say "lolz we considered it" everytime someone releases something new.

I don't think they are making fun of the competition for developing technology that they chose not to. I think Nintendo says this to explain to consumers why they chose not to go that route. This way you don't have Microsoft or Sony fanboys saying hey look what are company did , haha Nintendo couldn't do this.

This way Nintendo lets their consumers know. This is why we didn't do what the competition did. Covering Nintendo's butt. Example the Kinect, everyone's saying how revolutionary it is and alot of people said why didn't Nintendo create a camera? Well Nintendo gave those consumers an answer (They didn't think the technology was ready).

Plus other competitors do the same thing. Sony mentioned it too turned down the camera and Apple is constantly talking when ever its competition offers a service it doesn't. Look at Sony and the 3DS they have said why they chose not to develop a 3D screen for NGP. Were they making fun of Nintendo? No they were letting their consumers know they too were developing similiar technology and decided not to go for it, then they gave the consumers a reason they did not.

I would call what Nintendo is doing damage control. They had an idea and chose not to go with it, Sony chose to go with it. Now Nintendo rather then seeing consumers upset that they didn't go with it, explain to the consumers why they for-goed it.

Its not supposed to be an insult. Its simple damage control and smart buisness sense. Why let people think your behind the curb when you also thought of developing said technologies?