How Apple Is Beating Nintendo At Its Own Game 425
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from the super-steve-bros dept.
from the super-steve-bros dept.
Zothecula writes "In an industry obsessed with polygon counts and frame rates, Nintendo's Wii console and DS handheld were the proverbial knives at a gunfight. They were grossly underpowered compared to the competition, meaning Nintendo could sell them at a profit from day one. Their innovative control methods ensured they still sold like hotcakes. An animated GIF of Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata holding a DS that printed money became the go to picture to run alongside quarterly announcements of Nintendo's gargantuan profits. If a disheveled man emerged from a time-traveling DeLorean with tales of a near-future Nintendo struggling to sell its latest handheld, I'd have been more surprised about the Nintendo thing. So what on earth happened?"
Re:What's better consumer value? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:What happened (Score:3, Informative)
"Zelda? A remake of an old game that wasn't exactly the best to begin with."
Actually, that Zelda is considered the very best pretty much unanimously. See:
http://apps.metacritic.com/games/platforms/n64/legendofzeldaocarina [metacritic.com]
I agree with you on everything else, except on Sony; I don't think they'll make a huge comeback with the new portable.