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Nintendo Wii is Bad for the Entire Industry

June 02, 2010 in Blog comments 6

Go Fanboy's Craig Hasselback explains how the Wii may have influenced the gaming industry in the wrong way and how that influence may result in fewer quality games and less innovation.

Nintendo has proven that a system can sell without having the latest and greatest components inside. This of course means an overall lower production cost for hardware which we all know means a bigger return for the company manufacturing it. Since every company exists to make money, it appears the other two major players in the hardware biz have taken notice. Gaming has always had that “me too” element, in that if something succeeds, it will inevitably end up on the competitions machine as well. Online functions, cameras, achievements and trophies are just a few recent examples, but it goes all the way back to the Intellivision, Colecovision, and Atari days.
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    Akira_EX Jun 2, 10
    Sticking with the same hardware reduces game quality? That's a little odd to me.

    Also, the doomsday prediction is pretty laughable; if there was going to be a crash we would've seen it already, particularly with the current state of the economy and the recent performance at retail in the major markets.
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    AcFreeze Jun 2, 10
    Actually the recession that ran through the 80's and the crash that "did" already happen in the 80's makes sense. So to your point, we did already see a crash and it was during the lighter part of a recession.
  • 0
    bbb7002004 Jun 2, 10
    Pretty sure Nintendo did the same thing with the NES, (cheap, old tech with innovative controls/ideas) and things turned out pretty well.
    • 1
      AcFreeze Jun 2, 10
      The NES was great in terms of specs and blew the Atari 7800 out of the water. The NES was a powerful machine back in the day and had a ton of quality 3rd party titles that sold well. FF, Contra, Metal Gear, Bard's Tale, and on and on. Now they have 3rd party shovel support while only Nintendo published titles are quality on the Wii.
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      Zero and X Jun 2, 10
      Wow, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. The NES at the time were more advanced than PC games run on DOS.
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    Hideo1 Jun 2, 10
    You're about four years later than the rest of us, brah.

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