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Re: Feature: 5 Times Sony Shamelessly Copied Nintendo

Shinobi1Kenoby

@Onion it absolutely is.

The innovation is having movement and looking mapped to two analogue controls sticks which is now the standard for ALL FPS games on home console. That innovation was brought to the market for the first time ever on Goldeneye by Rare and Nintendo in Nintendo64, which was also the home of FPS games for that generation and remained to be until the PS2 came out.

Sony then refined that innovation, as they typically do and released a revised controller part way through the consoles life. It wasn’t a bad design, but it certainly was a re-design if a Nintendo concept and not an outright Sony innovation.

Re: Feature: 5 Times Sony Shamelessly Copied Nintendo

Shinobi1Kenoby

@Onion it was in a controller format on N64. The “innovation” Sony manage was to put those two existing sticks into one piece of plastic. The actual innovation around dual sticks was finally presenting a user interface that delivered proper control in an FPS more comparitve to the far superior PC versions with a mouse and keyboard.which was first delivered in goldenye which is the biggest innovation in FPS genre on home console.

Re: Feature: 5 Times Sony Shamelessly Copied Nintendo

Shinobi1Kenoby

@poppadux wow. You were completely wrong on every point there. Well done.

Why are you arguing irrelevant points. Can’t be bothered bullet pointing my way through, but st one point your argument actually agreed with my point about the original article but in an argumentative way to me? Very odd.

The discussion is home console market. To say a product existed in some form in a totally different market beforehand is totally irrelevant and just makes you sound needlessly upset. It’s like saying the television was unimaginative and just copied the cinema screen!!!!!! A Walkman played tapes and was just a blatant rip off of the home stereo!!! You see? Pointless arguement.

Mentioning the Playstation eye as a motion control was also beyond a stretch too far. The revolution with the Wii remote was that it bright actual 1:1 motion control to video games. That’s why it sold such a stupid number of consoles.

Disc over cartridge only served the market departments and not gamers. It gave you lush fmv cutscenes but garbage in game grhapgic engines and loading times. When PsOne owners were sat waiting for the second cutscene to load after spiking themselves for making a tiny muddy characterless 3D sprite on a flat 2D back ground, the N64 gamer was probably into Hyrule castle on Ocarina of Time wondering how the hell this world was actually possible to render on an in-game engine.

Re: Feature: 5 Times Sony Shamelessly Copied Nintendo

Shinobi1Kenoby

@Onion fair point. But Goldeneye was dual analogue. You could use two controllers, hence two sticks and fill dual analogue control.... before the DualShock was released. It also had four ports meaning loads of people had invested in loads of controllers so rather than re release a modified controller they gave the configuration of either method to be selected by the players.

Re: Feature: 5 Times Sony Shamelessly Copied Nintendo

Shinobi1Kenoby

@Onion nope. The N64 controller was a dual controller, it was using the D-pad and analogue stock. You could also use two controllers in goldeneye in 1997 for actual dual analogue. Rare in conjunction with nintendo innovated the control scheme that is now the standard for home console FPS.

Re: Feature: 5 Times Sony Shamelessly Copied Nintendo

Shinobi1Kenoby

@peeks I said hardware not graphical processor.

There is way more hardware in a switch than a PS4 and it has changed how you play games. The PS4 is essentially a PS3 with more power and less features.

Doom may be higher res on PS4 but unless you sit down with both copies wide by side and intentionally lookfir the differences, you don’t really notice as it is neglible once you are playing the game and it is the exact same experience...... except for while you have 4K at home, I have the same resolution no matter where in the world I am. I’m playing Doom on the plane while I go on holiday where the resolution of your PS4 doom is???? 0x0.
I’m playing it on my break at the same rock anyway performance, your resolution on PS4 is?..... 0x0.

You have totally missed the point of what the switch has done for gaming and it’s future if you think shouting about 4K at home is where gaming is headed.

Re: Feature: 5 Times Sony Shamelessly Copied Nintendo

Shinobi1Kenoby

@VmprHntrD

I agree, but Sony is making more of a track record of failing with those copies and showing their hand way more and more that they are imitator over innovator and are purely a business centred business as opposed to a gaming centred business.

I always apportioned this to fact they are not a games developer and are purely driven by shifting hardware numbers. Their consoles are more and more on slowly bleeding the gamer with the micro-transaction and subscription business models, over delivering quality.

Re: Feature: 5 Times Sony Shamelessly Copied Nintendo

Shinobi1Kenoby

@peeks all formats have their strengths and great games. At the moment though the Switch is miles ahead in terms of hardware. The PS4 is Sony's worst machine ever and in my opinion is a step back from the PS3.

1) The entirely free online service is now £50 A YEAR. No Thank you.
2) You could download and felt like you owned the films you bought - Now you have to stream them and require a constant internet connection to watch them, more like a subscription service. Charging full price for a streaming only platform is criminal.
3) Restricting control of and number of accounts in the manner they do now means its a ball ache to own multiple consoles in one house and waaaaay more expensive for a family to play online as you all need a paid subscription. Three active gamers in one house now costs £150 a year... PS3 was FREE. Switch is only £35 a year for those 3 and an additional potential further 5 gamer accounts for the same price!

The PS4 is slowly doing to Hardware what EA is doing to software:
Giving you less to own, giving you less control but charging you more and more every year for the privilege of renting their services.

Re: Feature: 5 Times Sony Shamelessly Copied Nintendo

Shinobi1Kenoby

@Damo 5?..... 5?.... you could only list5??????

1) The format in it's entirety was inherently an expansion of a Nintendo Console
2)The controller in it's entirety
3) Analogue Control
4) Dual Control
5) Controller Feedback
6) Taking Monster Hunter from Sony??? could easily be levelled at Final Fantasy going exclusive to Sony from Nintendo. But this is a weak point to make. Monster Hunter also moved to Nintendo in the middle of the huge collaborative works between Nintendo and Capcom.
7) Downloadable retro back catalogue
8) Handheld console
9) Motion Controls
10) Off TV play
11) Remote play of main console
12) Online Subscription service? But then surely this was Sony copying Xbox? thereby Nintendo copying Xbox and not Sony?
13) I would bet money that PS5 is close to an upgraded Switch it will be scary. By all rights, it should be as well. A more powerful hybrid console in the PS5 would be awesome. The Switch has set the bar for the future of gaming after the giant misstep with the Wii U and is quite literally the big generational leap in home console gaming since the N64.

Nintendo has relentless been the leading innovator in home console gaming, closely followed by Sega. Sony has done a very good job of taking those ideas either to the next level, or more commonly utterly failed .... Vita/Move/DualShock Controller (worst stick layout ever, but you have now played it for sooooo long that your thumbs have been brainwashed into making do)

Re: Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4 Design Director Laughs Off Question About Switch Release

Shinobi1Kenoby

I think black ops ii on Wii U was brilliant.

I think a Doom quality port of black ops iiii would sell incredibly well, which I would say one purchase over the PS4 version anytime. Developers need to wake up and not get caught napping. The Nintendo Switch has eaten its way back into being the first and sometimes only console of choice in a small percentage of households that Nintendo had lacked for a long time and its growing.

To ignore a current global userbase over 17 million (in only 16 months) and growing, is way more laughable than anything in this guys head.

Re: Soapbox: Why I Prefer Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate To World

Shinobi1Kenoby

Couldn’t agree more. I have most monster hunter games, was gutted I had to get World for my PS4, but was then further disappointed by the game in general. Bored of it quickly and ultimately traded it in within a month of release.

Loved generations on 3DS and then now play Generations Ultimate on Switch more than any other.

Hope the next MonHun is ultimately more like this, and not a follow on to world.

Re: Rumour: This Year's FIFA Release Will Include Chinese League For First Time Ever

Shinobi1Kenoby

@Baker1000 its not specific to English football no, but English football has a way more immediate relativity to me being I live there.

The sport is pathetic no matter which country it is being played in. The only draw is that you need a ball. It is THE most accessible sport in the world, you just need space and a ball, that’s why it’s so big, anyone, anywhere regardless of background or wealth can play it anytime.

Re: Rumour: This Year's FIFA Release Will Include Chinese League For First Time Ever

Shinobi1Kenoby

@KingSandyRavage 80’s football was slow, less skilled but way more attacking. Football has got progressively more wimpy and pathetic. Point in case, England’s “Star” striker on £300,000 per WEEK spent his entire World Cup campaign diving trying to get penalties and free kicks and is now a joint top scorer for his country with penalties and not competetive open play goals. English football is a total joke and needs fixing. It’s sad watching grown men walking around a pitch and relentlessly falling over in excruciating pain for no reason except to try and cheat a win instead of depending on skill and effort. Appalling example to younger generations

Re: Rumour: This Year's FIFA Release Will Include Chinese League For First Time Ever

Shinobi1Kenoby

@WillQuan and they hated every minute of it. Football is so archaic and gotten worse since the 80’s. They need to overhaul the rules and general ethos of the sport as today’s standards are just a joke, watching a slow, uneventful game played out over too long where they generally walk about trying to waste time intentionally or lying and generally acting like the worst role models in existence, desperately seeking a set piece instead of being competitive and just playing the damn game.

FIFA catches the general boredom of football beautifully and makes for an equally boring video game.

Re: The Switch Accounted For 52% Of Sonic Mania Plus' Launch Week Sales

Shinobi1Kenoby

Well of course it. Just because of Nintendo’s legacy, any retro gamer will always go for their console as it is the only true original gaming platform left. Every gamer alive today has had Nintendo available to them since childhood and will have a natural ‘member berry nostalgia chord to be plucked that will always make them gravitate to that platform.

Re: Review: Mega Man X Legacy Collection 2 (Switch eShop)

Shinobi1Kenoby

@SwitchVogel I loved Mega Man X probably more than any other SNES game when I played SNES in the early 90's. it just struck so many chords in the most perfect way I just bettered any other game of that genre at that point. X2 was awesome and the UK never got X3 on the SNES so I was spared from it.

I left X well alone till I stumbled over Mega Man X5 and X6 at the same time having never even known they'd been released as I was late to the PlayStation party due to too much quality on N64. X5 and X6 felt more like a double-feature and just delivered everything that X and X2 did, but brought it into the 32 bit age amazingly well. X5 and X6 felt like the Kill Bill Vol.1 and Vol.2 that really could have made one, longer epic length awesome experience.

Re: Daemon X Machina Producer Believes A Lot Of Modern Games Look The Same

Shinobi1Kenoby

Totally agree with this guy and his game looks cool.

Everything has become so focused on cutting edge visual detail, that it has all become rather boring.

I played gears of war 4..... meh.
I played Star Wars battlefront 2.... meh.
I played Octopath Traveller.... actually looks very interesting visually and there’s a lot artistry gone into it. It looks different, it looks interesting.

Daemon X Machine falls into the latter and actually looks quite cool. Reminds me a little of Zone if the Enders, but better

Re: Random: England's Dele Alli Performs Fortnite Emote At The World Cup, Gets Wrecked Online

Shinobi1Kenoby

@OorWullie don’t really see how it is worse. To assume a Dane is from Denmark isn’t a giant leap. Whereas the explaination of a Dane being from the Netherlands would take an explanation.

I was also assuming. It was either Netherlands or Denmark, hence putting both in my original post. I just forgot to add it in the reply.

Who said anything about worse anyway? At no point was I being derogative, condescending or insulting. It was pointing something out in a total general sense.

Seems to be you that’s looking to make arguments..... TROLL!!!!

Re: Random: England's Dele Alli Performs Fortnite Emote At The World Cup, Gets Wrecked Online

Shinobi1Kenoby

@ThanosReXXX you corrected “Brits” to “UK residents” which is still wrong.

England is a country. The UK and Great Britain aren’t.

There’s also little comparison in comparing states and provinces to the same gaff as mis identifying a country.

United States of America, Denmark, Netherlands, England are all countries.

UK, Great Britain, and states of America are not countries. Waffling in about provinces of Denmark would be like you being tested on the counties within England.

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