Miyamoto Decides When Nintendo Releases Next Console

[eightbitsprite]

I love how Nintendo reps piss on about innovation till the hookers come home, when the Wii was sporting six year old IR recognition tech when it came out. It's all "First!" nonsense. The 360 was also "First!" but then threw up all over itself and crept into the fetal position. The tech is never innovative, it's old and when it's implemented into consoles, it's like the second coming or something. EyeToy wasn't innovative, Natal *definitely* isn't innovative and Wii is mainstream nonsense in a box.

Just because the tech is old doesn't mean it can't be innovative. It depends on how you use the technology. People call the Wii innovative because it tried something new with gaming. How that turned out is up for debate, certainly, but you can't say Nintendo didn't take a risk with the Wii. Innovation doesn't always have to come from completely new things, it can come from taking old ideas/concepts/technology and trying something drastically new with it.

Your argument could also be applied to the DS. Touch screens have been around for a while, but did people call the DS Nintendo's way of saying "First!"? No, they claimed it was innovative. And in my opinion, it is.