Harrison: We didn't steal Nintendo's idea

[horacehogarth]

It's called jumping on the bandwagon and if NO companies did it we wouldn't have had the x-box or ps1 or many of the consoles we've known and loved. If one particular company has an innovative idea, the others imitate, that's life.

This can only be good for gamers like us as this competion pushes the various companies against each other to innovate more, which is to our benefit.

Look at the DS, Nintendo took what was basically a PDA control system (Touchscreen technology) and applied it to gaming, the result a fantastic and original gaming experience. I say keep on imitating as this will make competitors strive to improve on each others ideas to bring us gamers the best experience of all FUN GAMES and thats ALL that matters !!!!!

Good post.. Ninty fanbois bleat on about how innovative the DS is yet touchscreen tech has been around for a long time. MS took the best bits of other consoles and added the online aspect to come up with the XBox, which in turn now means Sony has to work harder to stay on top.

[horacehogarth]

Nintendo dosnt have "fanboi's" we are just in it for the fun. The only company that really has "fanboi's" would be sony. The majority of nintendo supporters and owners most likely own another console (cheapshot: due to the fact that we can afford it). This is far from the first thing nintendo has came up with to revolutionize the market also. I recall a certain machine using a gamepad rather than a joystick to the dismay of many gamers at the time. The basics of DDR were done with Track and Field. Not sure if the BS device was arround before sega channel, but you get the idea...

As for the eyetoy... it is an innovative device... but it sure as hell is in no way, shape, or form even somewhat closely related to the so called "wii-mote". Also many people are under the impression that the eyetoy really had no support. Personally when i heard about it, I thought it was pretty cool. It seems that most people wont give the eyetoy the time of day.. Some people dont realize what a cool thing they have untill its too late.

Last no one in this thread has claimed Mario 64 was the first 3d platformer... though many people concider it to be the first amazing one.. this is probably why some people concider it to be the first one in existence.

And agreed with the Microsoft comment. What seperates them from Sony is that MS dosnt claim they dont steal ideas.

Oh come on, open your eyes.. Nintendo has the worst fanboi's of all, your post cements that. There is this opinion that Nintendo care about gamers more than any of the others, total bull$#@!. They care about profit just like any other multi national corporation.. prior to the PSP they milked consumers time and time again with ancient technology and repackaged games. They could have made a much better handheld than the Gameboy a long time ago yet all they did was release new models with minor revisions as they knew they had no competition. Just how many times will they sell us the same games???

The only reason Nintendo have tried something different with the Wii is because they have to, the Gamecube is nowhere near as successful as Ninty would have liked, they know damn well they can't compete head on with Sony and MS anymore so they've gone in a different direction. It's not through choice it's through necessity.

If you look back when the Eyetoy was released Nintendo were annoyed they hadn't come up with the idea themselves.. it's technology that recognizes physical movement and uses that in games, the Eyetoy uses a camera to capture the movement and the Wii uses a controller.. how are they so different? The basic premise is the same.