20 March 2006, 5:06 PM
@ Jay: You seem to be basing your view on extremely out of date information.
- Nintendo has already taken drastic steps to improve its image.
- Nintendo isn't and never was in real danger.
- Nowhere has it been proven that launching at a specific time before or after your competitors grants you success. There is more to it than that.
- You seem to be forgetting the emmense success of the DS and its innovative features have attracted new breeds of gamers.
- It is a risk to go for a new controller design, but its a risk well worth it. Just like its a risk to ignore innovation and travel in a straight line.
- The Revolution will sell for CHEAP, the price everyone is looking at for the NRV at launch is 199USD, some people suggest maybe even 149USD.
- People are more intimidated by videogame controllers than remote controls.
- The success of the Revolution has been determined largely by the success of the DS, it's done extremely well for itself when everyone said it wouldn't.
- The DS has proven that when marketted correctly, innovation can overcome raw power.
- The Dreamcast didn't die because it was launched at a bad time, the Dreamcast died because Sega was having a lot of problems years earlier, the Dreamcast was Sega's last hurrah.
If you wanna talk more about this, you should start a Nintendo Revolution thread
That'd be a lot of fun for me if people really got into it.
But anywayz, in terms of the PS3 "delay"...
One thing people seem to be forgetting is that the forcefeedback system that appeared in the DualShock and DualShock 2 can't be used in the PS3 controller because of Sony's patent violations... that is unless Sony is prepared to pay Immersion Corp. to use their technology. But at the moment Sony owes them $91 million already. I think the amount we're talking is around $30 million per year if Sony were to license Immersions tech.
In addition to this Bluray still hasn't been 100% finalised and you can't launch the flagship system of Bluray with technology that hasn't been finalised.
Not to mention the fact that I'm sure Sony is putting a hell of a lot of effort into making the PS3 cost effective. I have no doubt that Sony is prepared to take a big hit in terms of profit initially but they'll really wanna tred carefully in this area or suffer losses worse than what the Xbox suffered.
And finally Sony is aiming for a worldwide release (Japan, US, Europe) in November, however I don't think all will go according to plan since Microsoft was trying to aim for the same thing and failed miserably.
IMO, Sony really does have more to worry about than Nintendo does at the moment since it is trying to do SO MANY things with the PS3. The system will be packed with great features, but the question is, will the majority of people end up using those features?
- Nintendo has already taken drastic steps to improve its image.
- Nintendo isn't and never was in real danger.
- Nowhere has it been proven that launching at a specific time before or after your competitors grants you success. There is more to it than that.
- You seem to be forgetting the emmense success of the DS and its innovative features have attracted new breeds of gamers.
- It is a risk to go for a new controller design, but its a risk well worth it. Just like its a risk to ignore innovation and travel in a straight line.
- The Revolution will sell for CHEAP, the price everyone is looking at for the NRV at launch is 199USD, some people suggest maybe even 149USD.
- People are more intimidated by videogame controllers than remote controls.
- The success of the Revolution has been determined largely by the success of the DS, it's done extremely well for itself when everyone said it wouldn't.
- The DS has proven that when marketted correctly, innovation can overcome raw power.
- The Dreamcast didn't die because it was launched at a bad time, the Dreamcast died because Sega was having a lot of problems years earlier, the Dreamcast was Sega's last hurrah.
If you wanna talk more about this, you should start a Nintendo Revolution thread
That'd be a lot of fun for me if people really got into it.But anywayz, in terms of the PS3 "delay"...
One thing people seem to be forgetting is that the forcefeedback system that appeared in the DualShock and DualShock 2 can't be used in the PS3 controller because of Sony's patent violations... that is unless Sony is prepared to pay Immersion Corp. to use their technology. But at the moment Sony owes them $91 million already. I think the amount we're talking is around $30 million per year if Sony were to license Immersions tech.
In addition to this Bluray still hasn't been 100% finalised and you can't launch the flagship system of Bluray with technology that hasn't been finalised.
Not to mention the fact that I'm sure Sony is putting a hell of a lot of effort into making the PS3 cost effective. I have no doubt that Sony is prepared to take a big hit in terms of profit initially but they'll really wanna tred carefully in this area or suffer losses worse than what the Xbox suffered.
And finally Sony is aiming for a worldwide release (Japan, US, Europe) in November, however I don't think all will go according to plan since Microsoft was trying to aim for the same thing and failed miserably.
IMO, Sony really does have more to worry about than Nintendo does at the moment since it is trying to do SO MANY things with the PS3. The system will be packed with great features, but the question is, will the majority of people end up using those features?
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