The truth about Nintendo

[Zod95]

cannonballZ said:

Zod95 said:

You are confusing invention with innovation. Invention is about creation, being original. Innovation is about changing the market (or at least making an impact) by releasing a product. So, yes, Farmville is innovation, otherwise Wii Motion wouldn't be either, once there were already motion controls on the PC before the Wii.

Anyway, I guess you got the point about the difference between innovation and evolution.

Farmville had an impact???? on what??? 

On the market: not only it had astronomical acceptance but also many people that had never played a single videogame in their lives have tried Farmville.

On the industry: after that, many more devs began to do facebook games.

 

cannonballZ said:

But you barely if at all acknowledge the effort...; especially if it's a Nintendo game, you downplay the effort like they took the easy route with all their games.

That's right. I acknowledge little merit on that. And it's easy to understand why: such games require little time, money and other resources but talent, they don't even require to go out of the 4 walls of the studios. For me, that's the easy route.

I understand you have a different view. You think talent and creativity are more scarce resources than effort/money/time. That's ok, I respect you opinion.

 

cannonballZ said:

And as far as Wii U not having a better looking game than gt5.... Project cars says hello. It's still early in the consoles life cycle..

Let's wait for the final result and then we make the comparison. My guess is that GT5 will stay ahead and that Project CARS on WiiU will be significantly inferior to the other versions.