What lessons did Nintendo learn this gen you think?

[Soundwave]

curl-6 said:

Soundwave said:

The whole lateral thinking gobblydeegoop doesn't really even apply today IMO.

Yes it was a great line from Gunpei Yokoi ... for the 19-freaking-80s.

It's not 1989 anymore.

You have 8 year olds walking around with with is effectively a super high resolution personal computer in their pocket these days.

When I was a kid yes, the first time I saw a Game Boy, I went "wow". But to me at the time a transforming Optimus Prime toy was amazing. 

To be fair it worked pretty damn well 2006-2010, but in essence I agree, it is a futile strategy in today's market. People don't want "different" any more.

People don't want "outdated" anymore I would say. People are more tech savvy these days, especially kids, you can't impress them by recycling some 10 year old piece of tech with some gimmick attached to it and think that strategy is going to work for you every time because Gunpei Yokoi said so in 1987 or someting. 

The NES and Game Boy weren't "outdated" feeling products for their time either, to me the NES was like a huge leap beyond what I thought of video games prior and that was basically playing Pong or Pitfall on my cousin's Atari 2600. 

The Wii and DS was simply Nintendo's correct read that with the PS2/GCN/XBox there were a lot of players that couldn't play modern games anymore. Mario Sunshine was 1000x more complex than Super Mario Bros. or Pac-Man. So they cashed in on that, but Apple basically stole all their thunder. 

The iPhone is more successful with casuals and women than the Wii/DS could ever dream of being, they got the genie out of the bottle, but that genie now works for someone else. Today there are so many convienant ways for anyone or any skill level to play games on.