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bigtakilla on 03 April 2016
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Wyrdness said:
bigtakilla said:

Fair enough, but they are a different formula. When people bought a DS, they got it for a dual screen experience, just as they bought a Wii for motion controls. They knew there was going to be a different way to approach games, and the DS and Wii were a fresh kind of spin to the same old ways we've been playing games for ages. Both kind of stuck, but multiple screens were obviously the direction Nintendo wanted to take as they (and I myself) believe there is more potential from being able to have two seperate screens for playing the same game. Motion controls are still there (gyroscope), but takes the back burner. 

The NX on the other hand doesn't look to offer anything essentially new to the formula based on the leaks, ect. And I think we can essentially all agree it isn't going to be the power of the console that draws people in. 

I don't know if you were around in gaming at the time as many people often speak in retrospective but no one at the time really saw the potential in the concept of the Wii and the DS until after they took off and saw it in practice. People and outlets were stating that the competition would demolish those platforms like it was fact, an example is Gamespot's April fools article for reference, the reason for this was that these platforms weren't the first devices to utilize touch screens and motion control in gaming and as mentioned people in gaming for most part tend to think in retrospective, what they did do was execute the concepts in a different manner.

Was it the first? No, but few things that get credit for being the first are actually the first. The first console to play CDs and have cd games? Most people on here say it's the PS1, but it was the Sega CD. The same thing as the console that introduced prerendered cutscenes. Sega CD, not playstation. 

That being said, while they may not have been what introduced them, they are the first to have a lot of big budget AAA games utilize them as the primary input for controls. (Which only applies to Nintendo.)