Magnific0 said:
It's called "forward thinking". Not everything is easy and handed on a silver plate. Revolutions take sacrifice. If it was for Nintendo we would still be playing cartridge-based consoles. They also never cared to upgrade the old Game Boy for like 12 years (and no, sorry excuses like GameBoy Color don't count) obliterating the handheld competition like always, and don't tell me they couldn't have created Game Boy Advance a lot sooner, they just didn't give a crap as long as it was selling. Sony wanted a different approach on its console design which of course influences game design, that's why they implemented the Cell. It's never nice at first for developers to work their games on something that's completely different. Sure Sony could have taken the easy way, and hell maybe they would've been better off with a normal CPU after having delays with the blu-ray lens which also inflated their costs. They would probably be making more money now, which is the story of all business right? make money. But no, they challenged themselves, they are challenging the industry. They believe this design is the one that will provide what a true next-generation experiencie is supposed to be and the next-level for videogames, not only for 2007-2008, but beyond. Frankly if I have to trust anybody's judgment and Designer skills I would put my money on SCE, they developed PS1 and PS2 and both of them where two out of this world pieces of hardware. They have carried us from Nintendo and Sega way back in 1996 and made videogames be cool, and the industry has never been the same again. That's the people I want to drive the progress forward. I understand is nice to play the Wii, I enjoy some of its games, but that's not forward thinking. The easy way, the Nintendo way. That's how they work. That's why they haven't even invented a new game franchise in ages. Look at their development teams, what's new? What companies have they adquired in the last 2 or 3 years? Wii Fit you would say, it's that new? It's that even a game? Seems more like an appliance to me or a tool. They would soon be competing with the whole American Fitness industry for pete's sake. They have strayed away from the core players, and they are happy, they are selling THEIR games. They said it once "a console should be made to play its own exclusive games" that's their filosofy , they don't care about third parties, as of today Nintendo is as Japanese centric as japanese can get. |
+1. You could be my brother.
