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RolStoppable said:
happydolphin said:
EBWOP: My own informal definition of Red Ocean. A market with many players and dense competition.

In the case of the NES, there were many competitors and many had tried Nintendo's SW formula, it was nothing new! What Nintendo did that was innovative was to enfore rules so as to ensure quality on their system. And that didn't change much for the N64.

Red Ocean it was, and not much of it changed in the N64 era.

The controller standard at the time was the joystick. America was moving towards 16-bit home computers after the video game crash. Nintendo launched a system with a weird looking controller and a processor from the 70s.

So what was red ocean about it? It actually sounds much like the Wii with its unconventional controller and outdated hardware.

That is nothing in comparison with the Cube to Wii revolution. 0. The inputs are the same, the ergonomics have simply changed.

Everything else that actually matters is red ocean. It pokes the eyes.

However, what Nintendo did with Mario was revolutionary, but it was still red ocean. (Pitfall being its analog)