PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is a MAJOR flop - we need to talk about it

[happydolphin]

pezus said:

happydolphin said:

pezus said:
People forget that you can't really be innovative if no one wants to do something similar down the line. That's called being different for the sake of being different. So, if you say Nintendo is innovative YET you say nobody should be inspired by their ideas, that imo is hypocritical.

This I can agree with. Well said.

The flipside to this though, is a company that largely only copies, it can be seen as idea-stealing, on the whole.

Thankfully they each have their own ideas, but Nintendo seems the least receptive to incorporating advances others have made into their consoles/games (take the recent comment from Iwata about the network as an example).

I think Iwata comments are seen to say something else than originally intended. Iwata took ideas from the competition regarding online, all he wanted to say is that he didn't integrate everything, and instead added a different value-add given a different focus (Mii plaza).

But people see that as "They just want to be different", rather than "They want to offer something alternative", which can cater to a different need. Confirmity is so sought out in this industry, but for what purpose? Most gamers don't ask themselves those questions, but we do.