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Kasz216 on 18 January 2010
pokeclaudel said:
nordlead said:
Rpruett said:
Going completely against the grain here...

I think people dramatically over state Nintendo. Sure, they have made plenty of innovations but these ideas certainly wouldn't 'vanish' or never be seen if Nintendo wasn't around. It has absolutely nothing to do with the company of Nintendo merely the people working for Nintendo generating ideas. You don't think these people would land elsewhere?

People act as if Nintendo is just light years ahead of the competition? Hardly.

Nintendo has lived off of a core group of fans and generally regarded as a very positive child oriented system. (IE: I personally have bought Nintendo systems just because they were a Nintendo system with Mario, Zelda, etc games...Gamecube sticks out). I think most software on Nintendo systems dating back to the N64 (Outside of Nintendo software) has been pretty mediocre as a whole.


I think you may lose some of the charm and nostalgia of not having a Nintendo...but truly the games would drastically improve IMHO.


I think that the argument that Nintendo 'invented' ______ or 'introduced' ______ is just a cop out argument. It's acting as if Nintendo had Einstein moments that no one would have discovered at any point down the road. Which is abundantly false IMO.

ok, argue against this. Nintendo always has their software group feedback ideas to their hardware group. Had Nitnendo only created software (which was the argument, not that they didn't exist) and their hardware guys gone over to the other company (Sony/Sega, and now Microsoft) would they have invented half the things they did? OR, would the software guys (like Miyamoto) said, "I wish we had rumble, but we don't make hardware" and nothing happened.

It's true that someone would have invented it down the road but the question is how long. Without Nintendo there wouldn't have been any advances until a generation later. The analog stick wouldn't have been introduced until the 6th gen and motion controls wouldn't have been introduced until the 8th gen or maybe even further down the road. The point is Nintendo bring innovation everytime they release new hardware while others just play catch up. No other company ever gets close to the ideas that Nintendo comes up with.

I don't even think you can say for sure it would be introduced down the road.

Videogames are an entertainment industry, not a scientific one.

The irony of the "Einstein moment" type situation is, that's not how sicence works... and science is actually kind of inevitable... and even with Einstein there were plenty of other scientsits about a half step behind him.

Entertainment technology, however... is not.  There is no "perfect path" people are trying to follow down.



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ale666 on 19 January 2010

Nintendo is what it is cause its an integrated hardware + software company therefore it would be bad news for the company to go software only (look at sega) ...From a consumer perspective again i have to say bad news since the other companies seem to just want to copy one another and charge 500/600 $ just for the hardware(might as well get a good PC ). God forbid the day we would have no choice but to buy the same thing, I like a variety of different choices and absolutely hate monopolies. So to answer the question yes that would be bad.



xwolf7 on 19 January 2010

It would be bad!!, because Ninty always offer us something new and innonative for their software experience when they launch a new system.....




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dampowell on 19 January 2010

Here is a small list of what Nintendo pioneered in terms of controls in the Console industry.

First Shoulder Buttons (SNES ERA)
First Dual Pads for 3d Movement (Virtual Boy)
First Analogue Sticks (N64 Era)
First Rumble Paks (N64 Era)
First Trigger Buttons (N64 Era)
First Incorporation of Motion Technology into Controls (Wii Era)
First Disjointed Control Mechanism [wii remote + nunchuck] (Wii Era)
First 3d sensitive infrared capability.

In my opinion Nintendo is needed. NATAL was only contrived as a gaming solution due to the wii's acceptance, same thing with the Sony Wand.



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Raze on 19 January 2010

Well, if Nintendo had not made hardware this gen, there would be no one going towards motion controls, and Sony would be less inclined to experiment with 3D gaming to find their new cutting edge to put them back in the game.

 

Is it a big deal personally? Not really. Would Nintendo ever do it? Nope, the guys at Nintendo are multi-millionaires, and could easily retire tomorrow if they wanted. So, the likely nature of Nintendo dropping out of HW means they would drop off entirely, SW too, which would mean no more Zelda games, which would mean no distraction from me taking over the world and enslaving you all. In turn, that would mean no more gaming for you, because you'd all be my B*tches or dead. So in the end, Nintendo is saving the world.



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Faxanadu on 19 January 2010

Yes. As a third party, they would have less access to the technology of the hardware. Also, no one would innovate HW anymore...



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Lastgengamer on 19 January 2010

Yes it would because Nintendo innovates through it's hardware.



andremop on 19 January 2010

Yes, because we would get only graphics innovation in the hardware business.



mightyERone on 19 January 2010

Nintendos' established franchise titles would sell the most on any system just as they do on Wii but I wouldn't like cookie cutter titles.  They do better with thier on hardware and would PWN if they were just software..



mike_intellivision on 19 January 2010

Nintendo games only sell on Nintendo systems.

OK, besides for the obvious, can you really say it has been good for gamers who like Sega games trying to figure out where the games will be? Instead of being on a single system, they are spread throughout all three. Which means instead of a Dreamcast, you need all three units (PS2/Xbox/GC or PS3/360/Wii).

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