Verge: Why Nintendo Switch is the most innovative game console in years

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zorg1000 said:

sabastian said:
People always seem to forget that Sony did almost everything the switch is doing now, way back in 2011.
Along with other innovations such as custom key board & back touch screen.
Sony gets almost no love for championing the addition of Cross/Play & Cross/Buy thats available on the Vita.
The switch is a good game console don't get me wrong, but the mobile home game console feature has been done long before on the Ps Vita.

Its all about execution.

Yes, Sony tried something similar as did Sega & NEC back in the 90s so the concept has been around for a long time but none of them had the flawless execution that Nintendo has done with Switch.

Its similar to Wii, the concept of motion controls had been around forever but again it was poorly executed until Nintendo with Wii.

The same argument could be made for VR headsets, those have been around forever but its just now becoming popular because Sony, Oculus, etc are finally able to execute the concept enough to make it appealing.

Innovate isnt just coming up with an idea, its also executing those ideas.

I would argue that what separates Nintendo is that they are willing to put all their eggs in one basket.  

That can be good or bad and Nintendo has seen both sides.

When they try something different, they fully support it.  It's like pushing in all your chips when you have a pretty good hand.