Miyamoto: Nintendo Waiting to Reveal NX Because of "Idea"

[DonFerrari]

Illusion said:

DonFerrari said:

The copy of Wii Mote wasn't that fast and wasn't the cause of their late struggles with Wii, and by reverse engineering of HW if MS or Sony really want to copy they wouldn't take long, Kinect and Move used very different approaches for motion control and infact were a lot better, but didn't had the same strenght. Patent can't be copied, they are worried about the concept.

I think Nintendo is probably more worried about Sony or MS actually beating Nintendo to market with their own cloned version of Nintendo's concept if they reveal it too early.  Once Nintendo is in the market, clones can come and go but it will be really clear to people who the original is. 

 

It definitely sounds like Nintendo is trying some simple innovative concept with the NX same as with the Wii (hence the secrecy since it is probably very easy to copy once revealed).  Also, by not getting market reaction to the NX's new concept they are either insanely confident that the NX will be huge or they are just taking a huge risk because they believe this is their only shot.  If the NX's concept turns out to be unpopular, Nintendo will not have much time to do a course-correction. 

 

People on this forum are right when they say that a Wii style success was basically like catching lightning in a bottle.  There is a reason why Nintendo's brand was valued along side Apple's in the last decade:  what Nintendo did with the Wii and the DS was insane.  Coming up with a simple idea that revolutionizes the world is very difficult to do and it is even harder if you don't have a strong foot in the industry.  I do not know how Nintendo can possibly be confident that the NX will be anywhere near the Wii.  That said, there is still some geniune brilliance at Nintendo (Splatoon was our most recent example of this).  If any video game manufacturer can pull off another Wii, then it is Nintendo (Sony and MS are far too risk-adverse to ever try something as crazy as what Nintendo appears to be doing with the NX).  Hopefully, whatever the NX is, Nintendo can succeed with it because I love playing their games.

I agree with you