Nintendo has won the race again

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Let's take a look at Nintendo's situation today. I'm the first to claim that they failed doing a video game console that could stay in the market for a long period ; non-HD graphics and a so powerless architecture ( quasi the same as the Gamecube was), and this disgusting marketing around WiiFit and the so boring Wii Music, or even with Wii Sports, that has been released in 2006. "Everyone can play video games". That was their favourite slogan at last year's E3.

But in fact, if you look carefully what's going on in this industry, you won't shout everywhere that Nintendo is that casual company. Really, I believe they won this generation again, like they did some years ago with the NES. Hm, it could be difficult to understand, for those who are only refering to numbers, but wait just a second : Wii-mote. This simple word sums up my point of view.

The Wiimote is the trigger element of the new video game fashion. At last year's E3, both Microsoft and Sony revealed to the public some new motion controllers that appear to be the next generation of Wiimote-like systems, motion-sensitive etc. Nintendo already launched its WiiMotion Plus to make his controller more accurate than before, but it's not as amazing as the competitors' ones, which are newer.

However, Nintendo did the first step into the motion-controller area. They did not discover it, but they made it the main controller of a video game console, like they did with the analog stick, or even the cross-pad of the Game and Watch, at the beginning of the 1980s. That's why Nintendo will be recognised as the first video game firm to introduce this revolution on the market.

And even though the Wii seems to be weakened by last PS3 and Xbox price-cuts, and their obvious graphics superiority, Nintendo has already done its job ; move the industry, making more ways to play video games. In this case, they have won the race again.

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