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A Bad Clown on 15 June 2010

The 3DS already has what the PSP doesn't, games I'd actually play more than once. Paper Mario, Star Fox, Kid Icarus, MGS, Kingdom Hearts, they all seem to be a slap at Sony. I think the 3DS is getting better games than the Wii this year...



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twesterm on 15 June 2010

I don't think Nintendo is specifically attacking Sony, but I agree that they should never be underestimated.



 

LordTheNightKnight on 15 June 2010
twesterm said:

I don't think Nintendo is specifically attacking Sony, but I agree that they should never be underestimated.


Well the games announced shows they are going after developer support hard.



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twesterm on 15 June 2010
LordTheNightKnight said:
twesterm said:

I don't think Nintendo is specifically attacking Sony, but I agree that they should never be underestimated.


Well the games announced shows they are going after developer support hard.


That's not going after Sony though, that's just trying to get rid of the 3rd party doesn't sell on Nintendo stigmata and, you know, trying to get games on their system.



 

pariz on 15 June 2010

Nintendo has been much smarter than many of us expected.



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patjuan32 on 16 June 2010
LordTheNightKnight said:

Normally I would leave Mr. Malstrom's posts to "The Malstrom Thread", but this latest one I feel is important enough to have its own discussion.

I'm not copying the whole thing here (again, that's for the other thread), just the relevant part.

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Nintendo Press Conference 2010

The ‘Big Picture’ is that Nintendo is openly disrupting Sony’s move to 3d gaming. Why do you think Reggie talked so much about how bad ‘glasses’ are and movies and all showing the ‘evolution of 3d viewing’ with it culminating with the 3DS? Since when has Nintendo been interested in movies or movie history?

Nintendo has maintained control of the handheld market because it doesn’t let competitors get their hooks in yet. Nintendo’s business movements have all revolved around Sony. The Wii was made like it was and released at exactly the same time as the PlayStation 3 because Nintendo wanted to dethrone it. When Sony made the move to User Generated Content by buying that LittleBigPlanet company (that Reggie said Nintendo was also trying to buy), Nintendo showed off Wii Music at E3 2008 while Sony showed off LittleBigPlanet. Unfortunately for both of them, no one cares about User Generated Content. Now that Sony is moving to 3d with goggles and all, Nintendo is making a 3d handheld that requires no glasses. Before Sony makes their move, Nintendo has made them obsolete.

I did not expect the next disruption to be the handheld disrupting Sony’s console plans. Disruption is crappy products for crappy customers. From Sony’s point of view, the idea of a 3d handheld is a crappy product. Who would want to look at that for 3d movies? And the customers for that are not the big spending movie goers. The 8th Generation will likely be known as the 3d Display Generation as the 7th Generation will be known as the Motion Control Generation.

This is savage Nintendo ripping and clawing Sony’s heart out… Do not let their ‘aw shucks’ style of the executives and their happy themed games fool you. Nintendo is a very dangerous adversary in business.

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So do you agree or disagree this is a direct move against Sony?


I have to disagree. I watched Nintendo's post E3 interviews at e3.Nintendo.com. In one of the Interviews Mr. Iawata stated that they had being trying  3D on consoles for a while. They even mentioned that they tried adding 3D to the Gamecube. However, it required an LCD screen to be attached to the Gamecube. I thinking they meant that the LCD screen would have to be purchased seperately by the gamer and the cost would have limited the impact of 3D gaming.



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caz604 on 16 June 2010

A direct attack?  Not too sure. 

I think this is more of a response to Apple.  Unfortunately, with Sony's 3D interests, its more like splash damage.



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caz604 on 16 June 2010

I hate double posts... sorry.



I game.  You game.  We game.

I'm a videogamer, not a fanboy, but have a special place for Nintendo.

Current Systems Owned: NSwitch/PS4/XONE/WiiU/3DS/2DS/PCGaming Rig-i7/ASUS i7 Gaming Laptop.

Previous Game Consoles:  PS3/Xbox360/Wii/DSL/Pretty much every one thats been released since the Atari 2600.

famousringo on 16 June 2010
caz604 said:

A direct attack?  Not too sure. 

I think this is more of a response to Apple.  Unfortunately, with Sony's 3D interests, its more like splash damage.


Whoever it was targeted at, it's definitely an effective way to differentiate from Apple. Apple stands to gain a lot less from adopting a 3D display because it does nothing for web, text or other media. It only benefits gaming (although it might benefit mobile video in the future, the content channels are nowhere near ready yet), so adoption is not likely to be a priority for Apple.

And any game designed with a 3D display in mind is that much less likely to get ported over to iOS devices with no such display. So at the same time that it differentiates the devices in the mind of the consumer, it helps keep development resources on the DS.



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Xoj on 16 June 2010

wii music will always be bad... lbp game of gen :D

apple to oranges really but u said it.

i dont think nintendo got out of HD war because they would loose it.

it make it moves to avoid direct confrontation with sony.