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Weird take because of how much they have experimented with entire consoles in the past. I don't know how the Wii could be called betting on withered technologie
by AlwaysRock 3y ago
Weird take because of how much they have experimented with entire consoles in the past. I don't know how the Wii could be called betting on withered technologies.
- sharatvir 3y agoThe wii is basically a slightly more powerful GameCube with novel controls. It competed with (and outsold) the ps3 and xbox360 which offered HD visuals and integrated online play.
- byby 3y agoIf you're a gamer though you know there were problems with the console. The appeal was to a very casual audience and that's why it sold well.
- p0pcult 3y agoNo true gamer fallacy
- byby 3y agoHmm maybe it's a bad term. I was trying to convey the fact that gamers that enjoy something like fallout or Diablo or Mass effect or RDR2, those types of gamers lose out when they lock themselves onto nintendo. I for one like every genre but I find it unfortunate nintendo has a wierd focus on casual age friendly games.
- AlwaysRock 3y agoThe Wii is the 8th best selling console of all time (if you count the Game Boy, Switch, and DS as consoles) and the 4th if you don't. Almost any gamer who has played a fallout, diablo, mass effect or RD game also owned a wii.
- gameman144 3y agoI play lots of games and I liked the Wii, and bought one.
- byby 3y agoSo did I, I bought all the consoles and the wii system is the most focused in terms of genre. Very casual and age friendly.
- majormajor 3y agoSo it was outdated tech except for the parts that weren't? If you add in "outdated graphics tech," sure, but saying it's just outdated period does Nintendo a big disservice. One of the issues with the Wii was that the controller tech was too immature, hence the later addition of the MotionPlus stuff, and how the Switch versions of "use it like a pointer" games are so much more robust.
- shadowgovt 3y agoSpecifically CPU. The Wii's internals weren't much more powerful than the GameCube's. ... but as peer threads have noted, this is a relatively new vector for them in terms of value brought to the marketplace. They were competing on grade-A computing and graphics tech in the console space, but did the math and (IMHO wisely) concluded they weren't going to win that fight against Microsoft and Sony (and the manufacturing deals MS and Sony could cut and the manufacturing they could do in-house). So they instead noted those two firms were competing on making the same kind of game and pivoted to providing a platform to make the kinds of games they couldn't put on those consoles (but were starting to show up in arcades, where the inability to compete with the home console market had led to the need to incorporate more interface gimmicks).
- lackbeard 3y agoThe Wii is actually a perfect example of that philosophy. It was built using outdated, underpowered tech, but in spite of that, was a huge success because they did something unusual and innovative with it.
- hiatus 3y agoPeople at Nintendo have used that turn of phrase to describe their approach. https://medium.com/@adamagb/nintendo-s-little-known-product-philosophy-lateral-thinking-with-withered-technology-bac7257d8f4 https://medium.com/@adamagb/nintendo-s-little-known-product-...