I agree completely. The only reason I bought my wii is that I thought it would be much more fun to play than the other consoles. Even my wife loves it and she hates video games.
Nintendo has hit a home run and they know it. The data is proving it. Soon, all of the companies that weren't 'bothering' with porting their games to Nintendo consoles will be concentrating on them. The innovation that Nintendo is introducing will expand the bounderies of games as more and more game companies put their ingenuity to work.
If you have to pick between games that are more fun or more pretty, more fun wins most of the time. Pretty is cool, but it gets old. Fun never does.
Some comparisons are inherently subjective. Making sure there is no bias is almost more important. For example, if you walked into the reviewers' house and found all Sony products there, they are going to be more inclined to lean the way of Sony on purely opinion based observations. Brand loyalty is invaluable to companies.
On a side note, OS/2 did offer a huge advantage. It was the first pure 32 bit operating system. If it were marketed in a different fashion, the OS market of today might be completely different. I did some coding on a legacy OS/2 application and found out that it was written for OS/2 simply because it was the most advanced platform of its day. NT was late in comparison yet it still managed to capture more market share. Why? Marketing. Gates is a marketing genious. Imagine what would have happened of Xerox would have had someone of his caliber. They would own the world now. Anyway, I digress.
What do you mean expensive? I would think that the real cost would be having to develop, manufacture, and maintain propietary items for each new model phone. Motorolla and Nokia (and others) could outsource a lot of the items and save money in the process. Why spend the time developing new things for each new model when you could easily add on to what you have or contract it out to another company. Personally, I think it would save a lot of money. Maybe not in the beginning, but in the long run.
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I agree completely. The only reason I bought my wii is that I thought it would be much more fun to play than the other consoles. Even my wife loves it and she hates video games. Nintendo has hit a home run and they know it. The data is proving it. Soon, all of the companies that weren't 'bothering' with porting their games to Nintendo consoles will be concentrating on them. The innovation that Nintendo is introducing will expand the bounderies of games as more and more game companies put their ingenuity to work. If you have to pick between games that are more fun or more pretty, more fun wins most of the time. Pretty is cool, but it gets old. Fun never does.
Some comparisons are inherently subjective. Making sure there is no bias is almost more important. For example, if you walked into the reviewers' house and found all Sony products there, they are going to be more inclined to lean the way of Sony on purely opinion based observations. Brand loyalty is invaluable to companies.
On a side note, OS/2 did offer a huge advantage. It was the first pure 32 bit operating system. If it were marketed in a different fashion, the OS market of today might be completely different. I did some coding on a legacy OS/2 application and found out that it was written for OS/2 simply because it was the most advanced platform of its day. NT was late in comparison yet it still managed to capture more market share. Why? Marketing. Gates is a marketing genious. Imagine what would have happened of Xerox would have had someone of his caliber. They would own the world now. Anyway, I digress.
What do you mean expensive? I would think that the real cost would be having to develop, manufacture, and maintain propietary items for each new model phone. Motorolla and Nokia (and others) could outsource a lot of the items and save money in the process. Why spend the time developing new things for each new model when you could easily add on to what you have or contract it out to another company. Personally, I think it would save a lot of money. Maybe not in the beginning, but in the long run.