Why Is Nintendo Releasing A New Console?

2 responses to “Why Is Nintendo Releasing A New Console?”

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   OniLink99999

   April 27, 2011 at 9:24 am

   “While I thought the console was all about good games, apparently, it was all about surprises.

   Boo!”

   What? Iwata and Miyamoto (among others) have been saying this for years. A console itself is a piece of hardware, and so to make their hardware unique and attract consumers, Nintendo always like to surprise the player with either their control method or some sort of feature on the system itself. The SNES Pad had shoulder buttons, the N64 had the Z trigger and an Analog stick, the Wii had motion controls, etc.

   Couldn’t you think of anything better to write in this news story? Some sort of personal speculation, possibly?

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   Random

   April 27, 2011 at 1:31 pm

   This is both Nintendo’s greatest strength AND weakness – the idea that everything has to be new and innovative, even to the point of throwing out mechanics that work well or abandoning everything that made a franchise popular.

   The Wii is pretty much the epitome of it having become a weakness more than a strength – the Wii has seen arguably Nintendo’s poorest games of all time, and those that have been good have not benefitted from the motion controls (and would arguably have been better with a regular controller). Even Wii Fit was a pale shadow of what it should have been.

   Up til the Wii, Nintendo tailored the hardware to suit the software they wanted to make, but more and more these days they just seem to be firing randomly in the dark. I guess we’ll soon see…

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