HappySqurriel on 07 March 2007
fooflexible said:
In regard to his comments, who cares? People in the industry are more critical then the gamers because they deal with these systems. Remember Carmack the other week ripping Sony apart because of it's developer tools? Again it's just one man's opinion. Even if he is respected. Secondly he obviously is not in the hardware business, as he simply expects Nintendo to jump on the graphics train with Sony and Microsoft and take a billion dollar loss. Anyone who's taken a business course knows the rules of business, there has to be two products on the market, the high end product, that's expensive but bought because of it's added value, and the cheap product that's bought because of it's price. Nintendo added to the mix a creative twist with motion controls, but ultimatly they can only survive in this industry by being the cheap gaming solution.
I'm not so sure that is the only way they can survive ...
Nintendo (probably) came to the realization that they can not win a "straight up" competition against Sony and Microsoft; this made them look towards changing the rules to suit them better. One of Nintendo's biggest strengths is that they can create games which maximize the use of their controller and are very intuitive and easy to use; thus they decided to focus on inovative controls on the Nintendo DS and Wii.
I suspect the reason neither of these systems is as powerful as it could have been is because most third parties aviod risk and Nintendo would have difficulty convincing them to spend the money to produce an unconventional game ... At the same time, I think Nintendo realized that people would be willing to pay only so much money on a console which was untraditional ...
