Gaming Illustrated - Without question, Nintendo is one of the most successful gaming companies ever. With the next generation of gaming right around the corner, Nintendo has taken the first leap with its upcoming console, the Wii U. However, is this Nintendo’s attempt at the next generation or is it an attempt to catch up with Sony and Microsoft before the REAL next-gen gaming experience becomes available? While there is much talk about the Wii not matching up in comparison to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Nintendo’s Wii was the only one of the three consoles that saw an early profit; Microsoft and Sony haven’t seen console profits until recently. Even with the Wii’s success, mostly due to its family orientation and Nintendo loyalists, Nintendo felt it was time to release a new console, not only earlier than its two competitors, but also at a price that they acknowledge is lower than the cost of development.
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@wishingW3L -- The writer's point of view, that was the interesting part.
PS: and Sony fanboys act like they don't care about the SKYRIM dlc lololololololik
and if it wasn't for Sony videogames wouldn't have been so mainstream, so?
Blasphemy!
If Sony wanted to do this they could have done this a long time ago.
Sony left Mario, Pokemon, Kirby, Zelda, Metroid with no competition since PS1.
Sony's market has been the mature gamers not the kids.
Their creed has been "Videogames Are Not Children's Toys Only." since PSOne. PlayStation single handedly transformed video games from a child's plaything to legit adult entertainment in the 1990s'.
I don't see that changing anytime soon.
To say Sony could have created a brand as huge as Mario, but just chose to not bother making those billions because of a "games aren't just for kids" CREED is insane.
Sony knew Nintendo had the family market tied up. They aimed for an older audience because it was easier to compete in that space.
Creating a brand with massive global appeal like Mario is hard, even with a ton of cash to spend. There is no magic bullet to accomplish such a feat, or else every company out there would be doing it. Imagining that "Sony could do it if they felt like it" is idealistic to say the least.
So yeah, Sony copying Nintendo means that they want to derail it... How is this interesting? Back in the 90's Sony copied the rumble and analog sticks too so what is the difference now? Has anything changed?
We all know Sony was just playing their games.
Nintendo was kinda flaunting it anyways. What Sony suppose to do? Just be depressed and sit there?
SONY IS IT"S OWN WOMAN AND WILL DO WHAT IT WANTS WHEN IT WANTS!
Look, Nintendo and Sony are meant to be together. Stop trying to spread rumors and go back to your failed blog and your dumb girlfriends.
#4realz
Dual-sticks was revolutionary however.
Do your research n64 controller is all digital even the stick.
This article is full of crap Sega was it own demise releasing all those console's and addons Sega CD ,32x, game gear, saturn , Dreamcast even lacked a right analog lol. too many flops will kill a company you know Sega lost the trust and loyalty of gamers and consumers alike this was their demise
Did you know that the PSP and the PS3 have this wonderful feature called remote play?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
Looks like Nintendo copied that to me
Copying?
Take your complaints to Nintendo.
Its them who commissioned Sony to make the Nintendo Play Station CD-ROM System in the first place. So it's natural Nintendo licensed everything SNES to make the Play Station - logic.
You should thank Nintendo for helping create the Sony PlayStation, bub.
Sony and Nintendo are part of a struggling bunch of Japanese company's threatened by American giants like Microsoft, Apple & Google. They are the ones who "Wants to Push Nintendo & Sony Out of the Console Business" specially Microsoft.
Remember "The PS2 was outselling PCs" scenario back in early 2000 M$ did not take that lightly and was green with jealousy & envy hence a green colored console the Xbox.
I say don't let the Americans kill the Japanese companies. Buy Japanese products.
Analog sticks have been around for years BEFORE the Nintendo 64. The Neo Geo CD and Vectrex, are a few of them.
The PS1's Dual Analog Controller was released in 1997 with BUILT-IN rumble, before the DualShock which had two stage dual rumble motors.
Nintendo released the rumble pack add-on the same month Sony released the PS1's Dual Analog Controller.
What about Nintendo and others "copying" PlayStation's controller grips, quad shoulder buttons, clickable sticks, pressure sensitive buttons?
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@AWBrawler,
LOL so you're saying you could play N64 games on your GameBoy from across the country?
GTFO
I didn't say its the exact same thing, but the idea of all that was started by Nintendo, and yes I could play pokemon anywhere then come back home and battle with those very pokemon on the big screen.
good luck trying to convince Nintendo loyal fans that.
shame journalist write such a thing for hits. here's one better:
HURRICANE SANDY WAS MADE BY MAN details at 11
Ps4 doesn't need to be ver powerful just make it where ts moving the tech forward and at a reasonable price for the consumers
Much much much much yeh 4 much easier development, this attitude of we are Sony and we make things harder has to change, make things extremely easy to develop for ps4 sp every publisher will be gladly on board
Sony will not be selling ps4 at a loss so they will try their best to cut even or make a little starting at launch,
Games,games,games and more games how about launching with killzone 4,uncharted 4,GT6 a new ratchet game. Ps3 early on was rough had so few quality games and that has to change.
People hate on VIta and say it has no games yet it launched with 25 games but thing is all those games came out than people forgot them so maybe space them out. Each game should get its fair time advertisement wise and consumers attention wise.
And stop shooting yourself in the foot like with Vita memory cards which are way over priced, to my earlier points make things easier for consumers and in the long run easier for Sony and publishers which are support the system or systems.
Let's get be thing out of the way this market is big enough to handle 3 main home consoles and more competition means better products for us.
I am very excited for wiiu but I am not buying it at launch but will be gettingit soon. The only concern I have for wiiu has more to do with Nintendo's history with 3rd arty publishers. They need to prove to us core gamers plus the publishers that they mean business and will be treating 3rd party games better.
Xbox720 or whatever it's gonna be called I am not intersted as of now, I bought 360 at launch but over the last 2-3 years MS have not made an effort with us the core market, why is everything all of the sudden about kinect? Wasn't xbox360 selling well when we are the core gamers supported it? Isnt it because of us xbox360 is successful to begin with so why did they turn on us. I think moving forward they will have a harder sell than Sony or Nintendo when it comes to core market.
I think Nintendo is on it's last legs. If Wii U is not successful by next gen... It's done as in, they will have run out of ways to stay relevant.
It already tried innovation for a very long time. It's tried a "universal" approach with N64 and Wii U.
I honestly do not understand how they survived the industry this long.
WiiU could fail and be dead in the water and Nintendo would still have enough money to have a profit loss for 63 years straight before they went out of biz.
So WiiU can fail, the next few handhelds could fail, and NiN still would have PLENTY of cash to start over again and again and again. It's over a 100+ year old company and It will still be here long after you're dead and forgotten:)
If the Wii U fails (which it won't until we get details on the other 2 companies) it will be because Nintendo thought the fisher price nature of the tablet was enough. People are going to get angry and I am ready for the disagrees but Wii U did not go far enough. The controller should be the console and the box should just be to stream and upres the image from the tablet to the TV. Even if they went to an SD cartridge for games that are inserted in the tablet they would have probably hurt some 3DS sales but they could pre-empt some Gai-Kai and Microsoft cloud gaming next gen goodness. See Nintendo is not equipped to face what could come easily with Smart glass and Vita or a new controller from Sony. Plus their online will only be up to this gens current online offerings when Sony especially outright is prepared to make some serious strides in gaming convenience and accessibility with the Gai-Kai deal. Nintendo may be the first to market but I have a feeling that they are making some errors in light of likely possible innovation that exists and that Sony and Microsoft are going to enter in a big way.
The 3DS had the same struggle before a price drop. The Ps3 suffered similar struggles before it started dropping in price. This isn't unmarked territory and you know it.
Your articles are an embarrassment and that's tough to do in a form of journalism with such low standards, Chris Buffa. Your writing takes modojo down a million notches.
Is there any angles left to demonize Sony with? I'd say all bases have now been covered.
They would make such a nice couple. Ugh, I would DIE if Nintendo and Sony end up with some creeps who would end up dumping them and treating them all wrong.
Look, Sony did somethings and said somethings. So did Nintendo. At the end of the day, we both know they are soulmates. They are always next to eachother at E3, staring at each other.
It's like .. HELLO! OMGOSH. :O
But that time has passed. Sony has discovered it doesn't need to edge out competition to continue on, and works to place itself competitively within the market rather than taking someone elses spot.
Come on now.
Each company saw what Nintendo was doing with its motion controls and family friendly games and both tried to capitalize on it and take away from the Wii demographic.
Each company is trying to one up the other and become the leader in your living room. This means doing what the competition does but better.
I know you are a Sony fan but to think that they can do no wrong or they're not in the business of crushing competition is very naive.
It's all down to the games, Sony and Nintendo both have good first party line ups but the Nintendo ones are going a bit stale in comparison.
On top of the fact that Nintendo has 70% of the game market in Japan now recently quoted from Forbes. If anything, the reverse will happen.
"Nintendo may suffer the same fate with the Wii U as Sony has already begun its assault on their system before it even has had a chance to launch, and before Sony has even considered developing a next-gen system."
Uh...PS4 has been in development for years now. In fact there are already games being made for it.
Nintendo could give away the WiiU and all their games for free to millions of people and still be better off than Sony. Understand, Nintendo lost money because of the economy and taking a sharp price cut to their handheld.
Nintendo isn't going anywhere.
Nintendo could problably just buy Sony if they wanted to.
Today I honestly don't think they care. They want to take the crowd away since its easy money, but overall they target two separate crowds.
The way I read it, Sony said "give us rights to it on disc" and Nintendo said "go to hell." lol
You could call them Nintony, or Sotendo or whatever.
They sat at the table once before, why not do it again?
Nintendo is great at creating hardware (they have a history of innovative control schemes) while Sony is better at software (they have a great lineup of 1st party games)
I'd rather they keep doing their things and staying seperate. Competition is good for consumers.
A merge would need meaning to it, which means more money coming in. How would taking two top selling products and merging them create more business? Now people only buy one product instead of two.
Why would you want to co-exist if you can get rid of them.
I find this whole article very pointless.
All of sony's attempts to copy Nintendo, like the PS Move controller, have been failures. (Note to Sony: consumers hate "me too" products.)
Sony doesn't have a finalized plan for the PS4, despite what you have heard. Sony is actually going to release PS3 content on iOS and Android. Both platforms compete directly with PS3. (In b4 "nuh uh!") This leads many to speculate that Sony is preparing an exit strategy, or a "no console" future.
But now that the doom and gloom is over I can say that I am aware of sony's long term plan to turn things around. Lets call it their "long game." It's a plan so brilliant that if it works Sony could find themselves ruling the game industry once again.
And if it doesn't work they'll be utterly destroyed. But hey, high stakes = high rewards.
If PlayStation was such a "curse" why would they slap it on everything and use it to lead into new products? Blu-Ray, music services, video services, PlayStation Mobile, PlayStation certified phones, TV's, and all their other products? Would be rather stupid to take a failing product and use it to help sell other things.....
Sony isn't releasing content on IOS, and their phone market uses Android. So I'm sure their content will be cross compatible with PlayStation, thus creating a network of products (EVERY company is doing it, including MICROSOFT.)
The Vita doom and gloom comes with every product Sony launches. Yeah they have had failed products, but the cool thing about Sony is they support them till they completely die. Unlike other companies....should we bring up the Zune? Talk about failures....
"attempts to take on nintendo have failed" How? Every other company that tried to face them head on got destroyed, yet here is Sony taking chunks of the market away. There is a reason Microsoft has stayed away. Now Sony's moving into networked devices, more people are likely to turn to them for handheld gaming. If hardcore handheld gaming died, Nintendo would be screwed, while Sony has a phone market.
Sony does have an "exit" strategy for worst case scenario, and if you are an investor that should make you happy. If gaming were to die today, Microsoft and Sony would be fine.....Nintendo would have literally nothing. But it isn't dying, and thus all this networking is going to create a big dominance for Sony in the long run.
Sony has lost over 5 Billion on the PS3:
http://www.vg247.com/2009/1...
Sony has not had a profitable quarter since 2008:
http://www.businessweek.com...
Sony stocks dropped to a 35 year low the night before E3:
http://www.joystiq.com/2012...
Sony stocks downgraded:
http://www.reuters.com/arti...
Sony Gakai (Which include PS1,2, and 3 games) is coming to iOS and Android:
http://www.playstationlifes...
Sony has been firing people at a rate of 10,000 a year, for the past 4 years:
http://www.reuters.com/arti...
http://massively.joystiq.co...
http://www.deadline.com/201...
http://www.680news.com/busi...
Xbox 360 pushing ahead of PS3:
http://www.geekwire.com/201...
http://n4g.com/news/976262/...
Sony's Kaz Hirai says "We could be in serious trouble:"
http://www.gamasutra.com/vi...
http://www.usatoday.com/tec...
-"Management is feeling a serious sense of crisis about the seven years of losses," said Executive Deputy President Kaz Hirai
Other Notable Information:
-Sony bought out of the mobile joint venture with Ericsson for $1.47 billion dollars
-Sony sold off its shares in the LCD joint venture with Samsung for $939 million dollars
-Sony sold off its shares in the LCD joint venture with Sharp for $125 million dollars
-Sony announces a joint venture with Panasonic to develop next gen OLED TV displays
-Sony spun off its small to medium LCD business to join with Hitachi and Toshiba to form Japan Display Inc.
-Sony sold off its chemical business to the Japanese government for $730 million dollars.
I honestly hate posting all this information because now I've given all the hateful Sony bashers more ammunition. However, I can't stand it when people are uninformed, so I had to post all this data to prove I'm not just some Sony hater. I actually KNOW they have a good plan to turn things around. And if their gamble pays off it will be the biggest revolution in gaming history.
Oh, and just in case you want more information, I can provide direct links to Sony's own finacial reports, but you need to be able to read Japanese, or in my case, know someone who does.
Oh and as for the Vita, well it's the finest product ever made by Sony, and one of the best portables ever created by any company. But it's still struggling, and at this point I can only hope for the best.
Look at your first link completely proving my point, it was written in 2009. Since your so good at doing research, please look up when the PS3 released....Now go read my comment about Blu-ray.
-Gaikai is coming to both, and sony JUST bought them. This has nothing to do with PlayStation. The service can go there and third party titles can go there. Doesn't mean the FULL service and FULL line up of games won't stay exclusive elsewhere.
I'm not arguing that Sony isn't struggling in areas, I'm stating its not PlayStation doing it. Its like saying microsoft is going bankrupt because their OS or Zune fails, they still have other areas to stand on. Above all else Sony is creating stable ground for themselves, by networking their devices and selling as a whole company. Something they sucked at until recently.
Although there is certainly competition, the animosity however doesn't even come close to Sega vs Ninty vs Sony days. I don't even feel there is one.
I doubt anyone can destroy anyone. This generation certainly has proven that. Its more like each company is their own worse enemy.
HAHA, prepare for the NintenDONY Dynasty! May it reign for a thousand centuries!
Or SonTENDO, whichever is fine... Sontendo sounds like some lost martial art huh?
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Lips begin moving slightly out of sync with voice-dub
"Be careful Chung Fei, he his skilled in the art of Sontendo."
"Such caution is needless master, for I have a Star Power power-up hidden in the pocket of my overalls, oh, and who the hell is Chung Fei?"
SmartGlass is actually a great new feature and works well with the console as a companion to games. It doesn't play games directly but imo, aside from that obvious difference, it is on-par, perhaps even better, than what Nintendo is offering with the GamePad.
They should worry about staying afloat before they even consider trying to take out a competitor.
Kumar is PS3
Harold is 360
Now watch the vid with that in mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Who said this? can you please post the quote.