Nintendo: Innovative or Gimmicky?

No offence, but Nintendo and "innovative" in the same sentence equals lots of :lol::lol:

I'm going with...

Gimmickavative. :P

Both.

Without innovations and gimmicks, gaming wouldn't move forward.

unfortunately, people like to use the words out of context and like to play them out as being something bad.

Just pure ignorance I tell you.

The Wii itself was innovative and a bit gimmicky. The gimmick went bad because of how some devs tacked on motion controls instead of figuring out ways to take advantage of it like so few Wii games do.

Hopefully, next gen, developers will try to take full advantage of motion controls.

Can't wait to see how Nintendo makes them work for Skyward Sword.

The Wii-mote gimmick died off a while ago. People are just like "meh" now.

Crossel777

It actually seems the novelty of the Wii has died off. The Wii draws a parallel a lot like the music game industry. It was a new way to play games, it sparked the imagination of the users, and it is a great social device that you bring out when you have company over. That excited the company and then they all go out and buy Wiis. Once everyone has Wiis the novelty wears off because it no longer becomes that social device to bring out since most people already own one and don't want to get together to play something they already have.

This is evident by the drop in hardware sales over the last two years, at the same time the PS3 and 360 are hitting all time highs in hardware sales. It would be interesting to find out what percentage of Wii users are now moving on to a PS3 or a 360. It seems Sony and Microsoft may both benefit from the Wii bringing in non traditional gamers into the industry and having a portion of them now want to play video games and move on to one of the HD systems.

In no way am I saying the Wii is a bad system. For a larger percentage of the Wiis userbase, it was a novelty item however.

by SW definition , gimmicky

who needs analog, shoulder buttons, rumble, motion ect.?

Before DS, innovative.

After DS, gimmicky.

People will argue the DS second touch screen was innovative, but it was not. It was a slapped on average touch pad.

Iphone is what made the touchscreen device actually good and usable. DS, not so much. ***coughstylus***

And the wii:lol:

I will hold judment on the 3DS, till I see first hand if the 3D works+ adds to the gameplay.

dercoo

Yeah, really gimmicky :roll:

No offence, but Nintendo and "innovative" in the same sentence equals lots of :lol::lol:

SHR3DD3D

Gimmovative.OreoMilkshake

A gimmick today is a innovation tomorrow

I'd say a bit mix of both. But mostly innovative out of both.

Nintendo's been here since the 80's, they certainly have the best games.

[QUOTE="OreoMilkshake"]Gimmovative.comp_atkins

No offence, but Nintendo and "innovative" in the same sentence equals lots of :lol::lol:

SHR3DD3D

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No offence, but Nintendo and "innovative" in the same sentence equals lots of :lol::lol:

Zune_HD

Both.

Without innovations and gimmicks, gaming wouldn't move forward.Wii4Fun

It's true.

Both. In most of their games, they basically stick to regular controls. They basically added some features to get a lot of sales, but kept innovating with their games.

Nintendo is gimmicky that just so happens to appeal the the casuals.

Innovative. Sure, some of the games on the wii are gimmicky but there is so much innovation that to me it doesn't really matter. Super Mario Galaxy 2 had original ideas nearly every level lol. But, Sony and Microsoft do innovate (sort of) but still copy like crazy off of nintendo just saying.

Innovative.

Little of both, I picked gimmicky because the few good first party titles it has doesn't even come close to the amount of garbage that was dumped on it this gen.

I would say more innovative than gimmicky.

Definitley innovative. Alot of good games wouldn't be possible without Wii.

Nintendo is innovative.

I'm actually surprised at the amount of people saying they're innovative. The majority of the comments I've seen about Nintendo have been very negative on this board.

innovative and gimmicky, both sony and microsoft followed with motion controls

Some of their games are actually innovative. Too bad their hardwares are a bunch of gimmicks.

All game companies are gimmicky... but Nintendo is far more innovative than Sony or MS...

Nintendo did Rumble, Disk Drives, 3D headsets, touch screen & glasses free 3D first in the world of home video game consoles. I'm sure they've done more, those are just off the top of my head.

Sony has done.... uhhhh..... ummmm..... dual analogs I suppose.

MS has given us... well nothing, in terms of innovation... save for Kinect.

Anyone who says gimmicky is a fanboy, and straight up lying to themselves. Nintendo has been innovating the industry since before many of us were even born. Just look back to the analog stick, in game saves, rumble, official wireless controllers. button layout, and now motion controlls and 3D, ect. While some people may not like or agree with some of the decisions Nintendo has made there is no denying that theyre innovative.

Noj_Leakim

i bit of both honestly, more on the innovation side though. they are definitely trend setters, they also consistently release quality hardware. i'm not a wii fan in the slightest, but i love nintendo.

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Anyone who says gimmicky is a fanboy, and straight up lying to themselves. Nintendo has been innovating the industry since before many of us were even born. Just look back to the analog stick, in game saves, rumble, official wireless controllers. button layout, and now motion controlls and 3D, ect. While some people may not like or agree with some of the decisions Nintendo has made there is no denying that theyre innovative.

0Hamburgher

The current controller layouts are all based on the SNES layout with obvious upgrades and modifications. The d pad on the left 4 buttons on the right, shoulder bumpers, and the placement of start/select. The SNES controller was basically the standard which everyone had to live up to.

I say BOTH.

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No offence, but Nintendo and "innovative" in the same sentence equals lots of :lol::lol:

BreakTheseLinks

Started gaming this generation? No, what made you think that?

Nintendo definitely isn't innovative within the gaming industry. At least not this generation. Tell me something they've done that is innovative? And don't say the motion crap, because it's not innovative. It's been here with us for a long time. They just wanted to evolve it. There's a difference between that, and being innovative (for example IW with their revolutionary Modern Warfare franchise).

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No offence, but Nintendo and "innovative" in the same sentence equals lots of :lol::lol:

SHR3DD3D

Started gaming this generation? No, what made you think that?

Nintendo definitely isn't innovative within the gaming industry. At least not this generation. Tell me something they've done that is innovative? And don't say the motion crap, because it's not innovative. It's been here with us for a long time. They just wanted to evolve it. There's a difference between that, and being innovative (for example IW with their revolutionary Modern Warfare franchise).

Let's see, 3D games without glasses, handheld gaming, rumble, touchscreen, and probably even more than that; and really? Calling Infinity Ward more innovative than Nintendo? That's a joke.

Both. Until the DS and the Wii, they were far more on the innovative side, but innovation doesn't bring commercial success... so they started coming up with gimmicks and hit it big.

Started gaming this generation? No, what made you think that?SHR3DD3D

Probably because you say things like this:

Nintendo definitely isn't innovative within the gaming industry.SHR3DD3D

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