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potato_hamster on 07 October 2016
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burninmylight said:
potato_hamster said:

You know I can do that very thing with my PS4 and Vita right now. Sure it might not be a function of all games, but I can absolutely play some games on my PS4, save them, download the save to my vita, and keep playing on the go. Many of those games were "cross-buy" so it came with both PS4 and Vita copies of teh game. The only real "innovation" here on the concept would be making such a gameplay option available on all games, and making it less cumbersome.

Yes, that's the point...

I think you guys are far too caught up on the word "innovation." You think it means Nintendo has to do a Wii-like mindscrew and bring something so out of left field that we're left trying to roll up our tongues off of the floor. When Apple "innovated" with the iPhone and iPad, it didn't invent those types of devices; smartphones and tablets already existed. It took existing markets, turned them on their heads, and made such concepts mainstream and indespensible. That's what Nintendo is hoping to do with the NX.

Again, I never said there was anything wrong with this. I'm not saying that Nintendo should do more, or that their apparent lack of innovation with the NX is a bad thing. There's nothing truly innovative about the PS2 (it had a DVD drive, and could play DVD movies), yet that's the best selling console of all time. You don't need to be truly innovative to have a successful console.

All I was doing was pointing out to those who seem to feel that this concept is a genius, original, game changing idea that this concept has been done before, and done recently (similar to how Apple fans can act when an iPhone gets a feature Android has had for years). I have no doubt that Nintendo will execute it better than the Vita/PS4 combo because frankly it isn't very good, because exchanging saved data is a cumbersome mess (Why Sony doesn't leverage the fact that both of my devices are on wi-fi and allow for automatic synching of saved games found on both my PS4 and Vita is beyond me). But, it's a fine proof of concept. It is absolutely critical that if Nintendo attempts to execute this concept as its core console selling point that the entire experience be seemless.