Pyro as Bill said:
Kinect Adventures was bigger than GTAV and CoD on X360. Kinect Sports was bigger than Ass Creed and GoW. If Sports Champions and Little Big Planet weren't attempts to compete with Nintendo, what were they? |
He's right on all accounts, though. The Wii, kinda like the Switch, was a unique enough experience that appealed to a different crowd. Casuals who had barely played games. There were some core gamers, outside of the Nintendo faithful, that bought the Wii and the PS3 or 360. Sony and MS wanting to get into the motion control fad had little to do with competing with Wii. It had more to do with getting casuals to buy their console, too. And it worked a little.
I also fail to see what LBP has to do with Nintendo. They didn't invent platformers. Other consoles had them before and will continue to have them. That's like saying Mario Maker was just Nintendo's attempt to compete against Sony and LBP. The truth is Nintendo saw a concept they liked and put their own spin on it. Just like almost everything these companies do.
