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errorpwns on 13 March 2012
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thekitchensink said:
Seece said:
errorpwns said:

How is it arrogant?  I mean he is telling the truth.  Unlike Sony and Microsoft who take obvious hate jabs at each other and want to attack Nintendo in every other commercial, Nintendo plays it fairly neutral and continues to focus on Nintendo.  That's where it matters.  Smart business practice.  Wonder why Nintendo was able to make profit while only selling 21 million gamecubes?  They focused on Nintendo not Microsoft, not Sony, but Nintendo. 


Is this why they're adopting Apps and HD and finally courting third parties and generally behaving like MS then?


1) Apps: Nintendo has been attempting downloadable  games since 1987 http://www.n-sider.com/contentview.php?contentid=213

2) HD: Really?  You're going to say they're copying by making a system that's more powerful than their previous one?  I suppose the Xbox was just a copy of the PS2, and the Super Nintendo was a copy of the Genesis.

3) Third parties: They tried to court them with the Wii as well.  Admittedly, their attempts didn't work very well and they're doing it better with Wii U and 3DS, but the intention was always there.

 

Nintendo is certainly copying their competitors in some necessary areas, such as the recently announced Nintendo Network, but those were not the best examples at all.

 

To add to that, Nintendo has been attempting to do Online play/network since the late 80s.  People fail to realize, Nintendo experimented with a lot of ideas in the 80s/90s most of which weren't feasible at the time.  Just because Sony/Microsoft comes out with something before Nintendo gets around to it, doesn't mean Nintendo wasn't intending to do that.  Sony basically conned Nintendo on the full disc drive deal, regardless if Nintendo deserved it or not.