@Sepewrath said:
One that is arrogant does not feel the need to innovate. Arrogance, makes you believe that you can put out basically the same product year after year and people will soak it up. Look no further than things like Guitar Hero/Rock Band, Tony Hawk and Call of Duty. Sony also with the PS3, that was pure arrogance, they believed they can release a souped up PS2 for $600 and everyone would run out and buy it, how wrong they were. The Wii U if anything, was Nintendo admitting, they cant keep up with Sony and MS in a simple arms race and that they have to at least attempt innovation gen to gen to take the market. So no, I do not expect Nintendo's next console to go the route of souped of version of that last one, because they don't think(and rightfully so)that they will win that race. Simply put MS and especially Sony, love the moniker of most powerful hardware and Sony will eat a loss to make that happen.
Hm. nice explanation. thanks for taking the time to respond. So while Sony and Microsoft will be having their bodybuilding hardware competition, where does that leave Nintendo? Will they try to compete directly with them or simply try to capture the eyes of consumers through innovation?
The only problem I have is, usually when a company does something innovative and it's highly successful (Wii, but i did lose people towards the end), they try to ride on that for as long as possible (Sony with PS2). People initially weren't swayed by the ps3 on launch but it rebounded towards the end and sales of the ps4 have been great...however, the ps4 is pretty much the same thing as the ps3 but you can see sand more clearly now, in-game.
not speaking directly about Nintendo right now, but doesn't constant innovation in too close of a time period hurt a company? a product loses the sense of "comfort" and "assurance" if it has too drastic of a change.
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