http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 10:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
Basically. It's great to hear "We're honored" instead of "we're angry!". Pretty humble.]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/It's also better than hearing, about a lawsuit.]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/I agree with you, 100% ]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
what a great guy. when im a CEO i wanna be just like him... alot of the others seem to sip a little too much mountain douche (glaring right. at. you. apple.)]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
Miyamoto can be nice and sweet, because he is not the CEO.]]>Mar 26th 2010 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 1:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
Miyamoto is a very humble business man. This lets me know its about art and not all about competition. I think i might buy a wii :)]]>Mar 26th 2010 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
Confucious say "it is not the difference in CEO but the difference in national culture that makes response different"]]>Mar 26th 2010 7:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
although in reality i dont think he's nearly that arrogant. I'm just saying one could take it that way. ]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
C:\NGRTL.TNS]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
Also, he's definitely not too bummed that other two consoles are admitting defeat, and copying the gimmicky idea that Nintendo has happily been milking for the past 4 years.

This plus the Wii's life cycle doesn't have to be as long as either of the other two console's, it's basically using Xbox graphics, R&D didn't spend all that much making it did they.]]>Mar 26th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
as far as hardware is concerned, the biggest R&D effort is with the component developers (IBM, ATI/AMD in that example) in developing their technology in the first place. console manufacturers are really more about picking the parts and testing them together and so on - doesn't make that much difference how expensive the parts are.

that said, nintendo surely saved a lot of money on software development by making sure they could use all their existing code...]]>Mar 27th 2010 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
Miyamoto will smile while those two companies are rubble.]]>Mar 26th 2010 8:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
Or saying that other companies are lazy.]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
Not only that, there was "pen" touch gaming long before the DS or iPod were even a thought.]]>Mar 26th 2010 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
You should probably start that list with D-pads, shoulder buttons, analogue sticks on a controller, rumble on a controller etc etc.

@Kloc

Sony have been claiming they've been working on motion controls for a while...yeah that's fine but why exactly did they wait till Nintendo released theirs before jumping on the ship?! No point having the idea if you never use it...]]>Mar 26th 2010 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
They released the Eyetoy for the PS2. That was motion gaming.Or do we just seem to conveniently forget that.

That list of stuff you mentioned - dpads, analog, rumble, etc. Nintendo neither invented nor did first.
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The N64 re-introduced the analog stick to consoles after decades of solely digital.

The Rumble Pak was the first console force-feedback.

I imagine the argument should be in *console* innovation, and the Big N has a long history of that which shouldn't be denied. Sure, the eye-toy had motion controls, but it was mostly on a 2D plane. The Wii is what brought 3D motion to the marketplace, and which is what Natal and Move are catching up to.]]>Mar 26th 2010 1:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
What lenpic said.

Doing something first need not be inventing the actual thing. 4 buttons in a cross shape could argued to be 'invented' by several people but Nintendo used it in gaming first. They brought that tech into that industry and therefore should be credited for it. As with all the rest. Also as lenpic mentions we're not taking anything away from Sony on camera based motion gamplay. You can easily argue Natal borrows heavily from both sony and Nintendo in that respect. Fact of the matter is though, Nintendo has popularised the whole motion Gameplay industry even if Sony did some dabbled in some before hand. The motion controls I refereed two where strictly controller based, my bad.]]>Mar 26th 2010 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/I remember when Nintendo 64 was going to be out, and it was like, wow, that's a very nice Mario, lol. Wasn't it the first 64-bit gaming console? And it also came with a crazy controller too, I think.]]>Mar 26th 2010 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
....and to your TV.]]>Mar 26th 2010 8:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/
no one wants to copy wii, they just want the motion control.]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Agree completely. Also I do feel honored when guys check out my hot wife. I won.]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/So jealous........]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Do not have good time only for MS. ]]>Mar 26th 2010 11:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 12:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 12:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/miyamoto-says-that-wii-is-honored-to-be-in-such-great-company/Mar 26th 2010 12:45PM