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oniyide on 20 September 2011
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RolStoppable said:
oniyide said:
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oniyide said:
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As for the CD part, IMHO it would have made them look better by saying CDs was a good thing and not trying to down it, especially since they still tried to add a disc drive later and didnt work.  Kinda like how Sony crapped on motion control and then added some sixaxis crap at the last minues and gave us a souped up wiimote later. They both look foolish.

 


And Ninty talked down CDs and added a DD to N64 and used it for GC and Wii. And they talked down online 

Read your initial statement again. The argument here is about hypocrisy. Talking something down only to later on add it to your own system.

Sony was guilty of this and we both agree on it. "Wiimote is a gimmick" etc. and a couple of years later they release a look alike with the Move.

But Nintendo talked down CDs and didn't add CDs later on. If you cared to read the summary about the 64DD, then you would know that it didn't use CD-ROMs and was never planned to use them. It used another form of optical media that was rewritable, so we are looking at a significant difference here. Likewise, the GC didn't use CDs either, nor did the Wii. When Nintendo talked down CDs their main point always was loading times (it sure wasn't storage capacity or manufacturing costs). The smaller discs of the GC basically eliminated loading times, provided the programmers knew what they were doing. The launch title Luigi's Mansion demonstrated this as well as pretty much all other GC games that were developed by EAD who are Nintendo's main force and as such have the biggest influence on Nintendo's hardware design. Same on the Wii, games developed by EAD usually have no loading screens.

In the end you are looking at the opposite of hypocrisy here and that is consistence.

Regarding online which wasn't part of the original argument, I have an idea what statement you are refering to and it's just another instance of SMS (selective memory syndrome), like so often when it comes to Nintendo's history. Only one line is remembered ("Customers do not want online games."), but the context is not. Read more here. If you weren't refering to this particular quote, then say so.


Ninty did not want to use any kind of optical disc period. I was just using CDs as an example. They have stated more than once that cartridges were the way to go. Well, they must have changed their mind on that at some point. 

As for online, Iwata said that the online gaming will go away, and considering how popular online games are, (hello COD) he was dead wrong. Or they wouldnt be trying on make the online for Wii U and 3DS much better than it was on Wii and DS