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Hm, interesting. Perhaps Nintendo could come up with something completely new. I mean, I don't see them creating games for phones - they are not under pressure
by Tichy 15y ago
Hm, interesting. Perhaps Nintendo could come up with something completely new. I mean, I don't see them creating games for phones - they are not under pressure to create a classical smartphone, so they can go completely crazy with their devices.
That said, if I remember correctly they were already deep in trouble before the Wii, and the Wii was mostly luck. Some engineer came up with the Wii Remote and they changed everything in the last second.
- primigenus 15y ago"Some engineer came up with the Wii Remote and they changed everything in the last second." Where do you get that from? That's not what happened at all. The Wii was a result of a coordinated effort to redefine the user interface and had been in planning stages for years. They spent months refining and iterating on how they wanted their control to work, but the vision of motion control and a pointer were a fundamental part of the Revolution project. The Wii was certainly luck to some extent, but it was also a calculated move based on a belief that there was a new way to excite ("delight" as Iwata calls it) players in motion/pointer controls and that they should follow that path, despite the competition going with HD graphics over controller innovation.
- Tichy 15y agoToo lazy to Google, it is just what I remember from reading the news back then. Maybe they really refined it for months, but the world had been waiting for news from Nintendo for years?