Technology for the sake of technology?

[Mr Khan]

badgenome said:
I don't think you're wrong. To me, it certainly smacks of throwing shit at a wall to see what sticks most of the time. I do think, for example, that Nintendo knew what they were doing with the Wii and that's why it launched with something that perfectly demonstrated the new tech and went on to become the killer app in Wii Sports. But most of the time these clowns seem to launch shit just for the sake of launching it, and if they have a master plan, they disguise it very well.

Nintendo is different because they have closer cooperation between their hardware and main software development people (though Sony and Microsoft have cooperation in that respect as well, less so than Nintendo), which is also why Nintendo games seem to shine much more than third party games on the same platform, because the hardware was in many cases literally designed with those games in mind, so most of the features you find usually have some immediate, software necessary purpose, and you can really tell when they don't (like the DS' microphone, yeesh)