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Post by nocturnal YL on Jul 9, 2005 14:29:10 GMT -5
It seems that only Nintendo EAD and RD1 are making games. RD2 makes few games, and IRD seems to be just there, making hardare but no games at all. What's happened? It's heavily imbalanced, despite the fact that RD2 has few staffs.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jul 9, 2005 14:41:06 GMT -5
It's heavily imbalanced because RD2 and IRD are mostly involved in hardware development. Hardware is a big deal for a console manufacturer. They also work on game production tools, advancing existing hardware and software, etc.
The fact they made games at all seems to have come about simply so they could show off what they could do - Punch-Out!!, for example, is a showcase for previously unseen character animation techniques in videogaming, coupled with IRD's manager being very fond of American sports.
Also, you say imbalance as if it were a bad thing for them that they aren't making games. Not true. Each team has differing priorities - RD1 was the original hardware and software developer for Nintendo, RD2 and IRD were set up mainly to deal with hardware development while RD1 concentrated on games - all this until EAD was set up to produce the best and most original games ever. In a sense, they have all been equally successful.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jul 9, 2005 14:47:54 GMT -5
So... you mean that ... diversification?
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jul 9, 2005 15:03:28 GMT -5
Well, Nintendo is a console manufacturer as well as a game developer, so they need quite a lot of people building and play-testing new hardware: like analogue sticks, touch screens, innovative "mystery" controllers, wi-fi... and whatever else they may be designing for the future. On a kinda unrelated hardware note - this reminds me of a news piece I read... in Edge I think. Sony and Microsoft are being taken to court for their application of force feedback technology in their controllers by a small company that developed the "rumble" methods and patented them. However, Nintendo wasn't included, because its rumble uses a different system, and was patented BEFORE this company's version. Just thought it was funny  |
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Post by Blueberry_pie on Jul 9, 2005 15:11:57 GMT -5
On a kinda unrelated hardware note - this reminds me of a news piece I read... in Edge I think. Sony and Microsoft are being taken to court for their application of force feedback technology in their controllers by a small company that developed the "rumble" methods and patented them. However, Nintendo wasn't included, because its rumble uses a different system, and was patented BEFORE this company's version. Just thought it was funny Ooh, that's funny indeed ;D How exactly is Nintendo's rumble system different from the others though? |
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jul 9, 2005 18:51:46 GMT -5
No idea, but it was patented before the others. Maybe it had something to do with the fact Nintendo's started as an add-on "Rumble Pak" rather than an internal force feedback controller. Good ol' Nintendo... always making sure they've tied up the legal loose-ends |
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Post by Solid Snake on Jul 14, 2005 6:54:02 GMT -5
Then they will be broken sooner or later  |
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