Phil Spencer: "Nintendo future exists off their own hardware"

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zeldaring said:

curl-6 said:

My first post explicitly cited innovation, there is no subject change.

You claimed Nintendo only innovate when they're failing. I pointed out why you're wrong with multiple specific examples. You then moved the goalposts to "but Sony innovates sometimes too".

I never said Nintendo only innovates when they  fail. I said take risk and new direction is something they had to do after they failed. As you said Nintendo keeps things interesting by taking risk and innovation, we can all agree the 3 consoles manufactures all share this. so the main reason Nintendo really keeps things interesting is because they took a totally different direction with after GC failure.

This I can partly agree with, but even before the Wii they made a point of differentiating their systems from the competition; for instance they didn't just make the N64 a Nintendo branded PS1, they leaned hard into the analog stick, rumble, and 4 player local multiplayer. Likewise, GBA was a hit but they didn't just make the DS a stronger GBA or a Nintendo branded PSP.