How Nintendo just punked Sony and Microsoft

[LordTheNightKnight]

Squilliam said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

"In a nutshell in order to stave off any PMS (Post Malstrom Stress) I'll sum it up in a one liner: Nintendo just pumped up a specific style of game controller, made mega dollars on the trend and then abandoned as their main console focus in less than 5 years."

How would that stave off anything? For those of us that still agree wit him, that's a bad thing to us.

Nintendo didn't make a "trend" to make millions off of. Or if they did think that, they know less of the market than even Malstrom thought.

By placing the Wiimote on the backburner they effectively seal their interface as the dominant mote style interface by a huge margin. It poisons the well so to speak because it turns what was once a growing market into a stagnant or shrinking market simply because at the time of this announcement they control 90% of it but have changed focus away from the pointer/motion controls. Then as it would be impractical to support three interfaces at once, what does Sony do? Do they copy the touchpad and abandon their famous dual shock pad design? Do they abandon Move and leave all those people who supported them with no choice but to suck it up or buy an NES 6?

 

First of all, the touchpad has not been confirmed, unless there is a direct quote from Nintendo I missed.

Second of all, even if they are doing that, it's not going to work. Sony will fail by their own hand, not Nintendo playing switcharoo with controllers.

Nintendo wants to at least beat Sony and Microsoft, they need to keep up the mainstream games, not games where they like to show off. The former is where the Wii rose, and the latter is where the Wii faltered.