Tachikoma said:
Using external device as a chat interface... You can chat with friends, manage friends list, buy games, etc on Xbox One via Smartglass, and do the same things on PlayStation 4 using the PlayStation companion app, feel free to show me a nintendo "twist" here.
Both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have three power modes, On, Suspend and Standby, the "external apparatus via a network" is just "communicating with a server", when in Suspend network functions still work for downloading updates and games, when in Standby the network functionality is turned off too, again feel free to show me a nintendo "twist" here. Fact of the matter is, if Microsoft or Sony were applying for patents on things that the WiiU or 3DS does, the Nintendo crowd would be having a field day pulling up the usual "sony / microsoft copies!" images, but since it's Nintendo, the one that's supposed to be the innovative one, it gets a free pass. Mind you, when it comes from a site that posts something like this as "news" - http://nintendoenthusiast.com/news/rumor-sony-starting-campaign-damage-wii-u/ the source being a mind numbingly idiotic fanboy called Tilmen who has, on multiple occasions been shown to be completely full of shit - it pretty much says it all. |
The twist is that Smart Glass and the companion app don't come bundled with the system. It's not an intergral part of the consoles' experiences. The aren't integrated into the ecosytem of the consoles because they're external features hardly anyone will have the incentive to use. That's like talking about remote play as if it's the same as off TV play. It's not, just by the merit that every Wii U comes with a gamepad and every game is built with off T.V. play as an expected feature, both to be integrated and used. When you buy a Wii U, off T.V. play is part of your intended experience. When you buy a PS4 or a Vita, remote play is not.
When the NX comes out and the main gimmick is the ability to play the same games on different platforms, is that just a copy of crossbuy/play/save on the PS3/Vita? No. Why? Because those systems weren't built from the ground up since inception to best utilize those features. Because the OS and the UI and the way games are designed for the platform aren't informed and influenced in a significant or integral way by crossbuy/save/play like the NX will. That's the twist.
You got me though. I was only talking about the one patent, so I don't know fuck all the relevance of the powersave one. Not that I care. The ability to put your console to sleep isn't exciting to think or talk about.
Of course people would have a field day. What on earth could Microsoft or Sony patent that wouldn't be copying something Nintendo uniquely does? Seriously. These patents are merely minor tweaks to industry standards everyone practices. It isn't copying. It's assimilating. When Nintendo breaks sales records with a two piece motion controller that only they use, and then Sony comes out with the exact same thing, but in black, yeah, it's copying. If Nintendo tomorrow filed a patent specifically for a touchpad on their controller or a camera that came with every NX that allowed you to talk to it Siri style to direct the console without using the controller, then your example would hold water. But they haven't, and it doesn't.
No one's saying Nintendo created group chat, and no one's making it out like they are revolutionizing the industry with their take on group chat, but making a patent for your specific brand of group chat isn't copying just as much as it isn't brand knew innovation.
EDIT: Also, do you not write/moderate for the site anymore?
