HappySqurriel on 18 June 2007
Nintendo has had less of an uphill battle with the Wii than they had with the Nintendo DS mainly because the success of the Nintendo DS earned them a lot of respect to do whatever they wanted.
If Sony or Microsoft came out with motion controls instead of Nintendo (in particular if the PS3 or XBox 360 had the Wiimote+nunchuck) I'm not too sure they could have been successful. Ubisoft, Activision and EA gave the Wii the support they did because of how successful the DS was and how inexpensive Wii development was; trying to convince "the suits" that motion controls would be successful and to devote $20 Million to exclusive projects would have been impossible without a track record of success of inovative console design.
