Xbox veep praises the Revolution controller
If nothing else, Nintendo turned a lot of heads (including ours) when they announced their Revolution controller at the Tokyo Game Show last week, including that of Microsoft Xbox VP Peter Moore, who told GamesIndustry.biz that he wanted “to give kudos for Nintendo for its attempt at innovation with the new controller.” Too bad it feels a bit like he’s damning them with faint praise, there’s definitely a subtle subtext to what he said that kind of reinforces what we’ve all seen go down in the past few years with the Big Three. Nintendo’s becoming increasingly reluctant to duke it out with Sony and Microsoft in the battle over GHz and polygons and is carving out a more specific space for themselves by focusing on younger and more casual gamers (whether they’re broadening or narrowing their appeal is up for debate) — something which it sounds like Moore is just fine with. Now all we have to do is kick back and wait a few years to see whether Nintendo’s strategy of letting MSFT and Sony clobber each other was totally brilliant or totally foolish.
