Mr Khan said:
Rainbird said:
Mr Khan said:
Seece said:
'We don't care what our competitors are doing, we don't care what the wider entertainment industry is doing'
If that's true, that's such a terrible way for a company to run itself
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Nintendo shouldn't care, because they're in the business of selling their own systems, and have one effective tool to use in the sale of such systems (e.g. first party games) that bears little on what anyone else is doing
Nintendo only need follow industry trends very vaguely and broadly, to minimize the amount of good excuses third parties have for not developing on the platform (but of course, 3rd parties will take the bad or irrational excuses, so that point is almost moot as well.)
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Nintendo should in fact care. For example, Sony caught a bunch of flack for releasing the PSP with only one analogue stick, and yet Nintendo does the same with the 3DS and are now releasing a peripheral with an additional analogue stick.
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It's reasonably clear the circle pad pro was just a moneyhat for Monster Hunter Tri G, evident from the fact that it's optional even in the game it was designed for.
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It may have started as a money hat for MHTG, but it has become so much more. Third parties are supporting it with a bunch of games, and even Nintendo themselves are supporting it, so clearly developers thinks it improves their games. On top of that, consumers have been demanding that second analogue stick since the PSP was released.
Ignoring the peripheral for a moment, why would Nintendo do exactly the same thing this new generation, that Sony got battered for in the previous generation?
