Quote Originally Posted by petewhitley
Quote Originally Posted by Daria
For the price increase on both system and games all you're getting from Sony and Microsoft is bigger and better specs. Whoopee new graphics cards.
But that's what I want. That's what alot of people want. Better looking, more detailed, bigger games with smarter AI. Why does Iwata think that the industry is stagnating? Gaming continues to increase in profitability and popularity, globally if not locally in Japan. New gaming genres (in a large part driven by spec increases, ala GTA) continue to change the face of gaming. You can't shake the feeling that Nintendo is telling us what we want. It's not even that big of a jump in control (hello Powerglove); it's just big enough to alienate 3rd parties and discourage cross-platform ports, just as the N64 cartridges did and to some extent the custom GameCube disc format did. This is a forced evolution in control, and as such, it stands less likely to revolutionize anything.
THIS is what nintendo does. Did they ask anyone before they released the analong stick on the N64 and created THE game that all 3D platformers would then be held to in comparison? They revolutinized the industry with that.

I am in total agreeance with Daria's first post. I will get this at launch.

Everyone is shitting on its shape and saying its too much, its to different. Thats fine to think, but without that next step we will continue to have the same control schemed games.

And the earlier posts about those who are saying that they wont play stuff with a Cube controller on the 'next' system. Ya all better put your fucking PS2 AND PS3 controllers down. The Dual Shock 2 is just the Dual shock with button sensitivity. Hell its in the SAME CASEMOLD. The PS3 controller beyond wireless... offers you a smooth boomarang look, no new buttons, no new control feelings. NOTHING. The X360 looks like a wireless and slightly case modded Type-S controller. Thats also not much in the Innovation department, but hey, as long as its all the same who gives a rats ass.

So far when ANY other control scheme has been developed for the other systems (Eye-Toy comes to mind) It recieves what Sony tends to do with its perhifials. Short support. And due to that lack of support it died. Where are all those games with Eye-Toy support in em? I can count less than a dozen american releases and dont get me started with the HDD for the PS2 and its whopping 2 games of support. Wheres the PSX? Still in Japan where its dead there too. because of a lack of support.

Innovation is what in the end run will keep people buying. The easy innovation is the graphic cards, because we LOOK at games, but once we realise that hey, this is basically doing exactly what my XBox or PS2 or Cube is already capable of, then why buy? Like all big businesses the gaming industy will just as easily fall into that rut of making the same stuff year in and out. Look at the glut of stuff in japan, sales are down there for a reason. American developers dont take lots of risks and we get lots of GTA style clones and sports rehashes.

It was about time for a new jolt. If some developers actually get innovative with this, the controller is going to be fucking amazing. If not Nintendo will still have its loyal following and they will still pull yearly profits as they take their next steps down the road.