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Nintendo's hardware had never failed to be slightly disappointing to anybody expecting something anywhere near the cutting edge. The Ninty magic has always bee
by ry_ry 9y ago
Nintendo's hardware had never failed to be slightly disappointing to anybody expecting something anywhere near the cutting edge.
The Ninty magic has always been in their playful treatment of their handful of IPs, with their bizarre ability to randomly drop something truly genre defining.
Nintendo stopped being a hardware company when they knocked the playing cards on the head.
- chc 9y agoEverything they made up until the Wii was far from disappointing. The NES was way ahead of anything near that price, the SNES was competitive, the N64 chose different tradeoffs than the competition but was probably more powerful, and the GameCube was better than the PS2.
- planteen 9y ago> Nintendo's hardware had never failed to be slightly disappointing to anybody expecting something anywhere near the cutting edge. I'd argue the N64 was cutting edge when it was released.
- derstander 9y agoI think you're letting the immediate past (Wii and WiiU) unfairly color your perceptions of Nintendo. Even as recently as Gamecube, Nintendo released a "cutting edge" (from a console gamer's perspective) system. It offered performance near to XBox and certainly more powerful than the PS2. I say this even though I had a PS2 that generation because I found the extreme parallelism in the architecture really interesting. I even had one of the PS2 Linux kits, though I didn't do all that much with it.