When you hear 'Nintendo' what's the first thing that comes to mind?

[AbbathTheGrim]

miz1q2w3e said:

AbbathTheGrim said:

Roma said:

AbbathTheGrim said:
Safe, doing it safe.

Lol out of the three Nintendo is the one that takes most risks! 

When I hear Nintendo I think of Do0m3ed!!

Dumping down tech advancements to remain in profit. Rehashing the same franchises over and over again without coming with new IPs. Not daring to make a non-family oriented game since Eternal Darkness.

They haven't gone safe all the time, but that is what came to my mind first.

They may take it "safe" a lot of the time, especially when it comes to making M-rated titles and online gaming... But I agree with Roma, they're the biggest risk takers/innovators out of the big three

But it is the first thing that came to mind for you, I feel kinda silly arguing :p

The thing is that innovation is not necessarily "riks" in all cases. I would give an innovation the riks factor if its implementation would determine the uncertain success of that the console or whatever is being tried to be pushed to the market, as was the case of the motion in the Wii which was certainly a pretty big risk.

Joysticks were already accepted in arcades, rumble was an add-on which if I remember correctly you even had to buy seperate from the controller, handhelds were already being stablished before Nintendo, etc.

But this is kind of off-topic material, isn't it? XD