How Apple Is Beating Nintendo At Its Own Game 425
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.