Iwata: Nintendo Wants To "Suprise Gamers" With NX

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zorg1000 said:

Soundwave said:

The NES really didn't offer a "new way to play". Over time actually the gimmicks that Nintendo had to initially shove into the system like R.O.B. and the Zapper were barely/rarely used. People just wanted the meat and potatoes gameplay with the standard NES game pad. 

The foundation the NES established still continues today even in platforms like the PS4. The Wii motion gaming craze meanwhile is pretty much all but dead in under 10 years. One was a fad, the other wasn't.

Yes it did, u say standard NES game pad as if it was a standard controller for the time. Pre-NES, standard controllers looked like the Atari 5200/IntelleVision/ColecoVision controller. And it's not just about controllers, it's also about the games, Super Mario Bros was a massive leap from earlier platform games like Pitfall and were there games that played like Zelda or Metroid before those games released?

The controller was refined, but it wasn't really a "new way to play", it was just a better version of what had come before. 

And certainly the NES had far (far) better graphics than the Atari 2600/5200. 

But you can say similar things about say the leap from 16-bit systems to the Playstation, etc. The NES was a standard game console, while it did have gimmicky controllers like R.O.B. and Zapper this was mostly just to get retailers to carry the system because it was at its heart a traditional game system. 

The NES probably was the Playstation 4 of its day. The Sega Master System (ironically) is basically what Nintendo has turned their console division into (niche side product, no third party support, great 1st party games).