Right: Nintendo is a toy company. They don’t want to compete; they want to be the only company that sells [blank]. It’s their “blue ocean” strategy.
And on DS they had Zelda games with puzzles that required all kinds of touchscreen, microphone, and hinge bullshit. You get a stamp to mark a map… but there’s no button to use it. It’s on the top screen, so you can’t use the stylus. You have to close the system to bring it down onto the paper.
Even their literally-an-Android-tablet handheld, the Switch, has the incomparable advantage of being a portable console. They sell the only tablet with buttons. It plays multiplatform games just fine. I have no goddamn idea how they were the first to really do this, but I guess everyone in the tablet industry remains devoted to copying Apple.
Right: Nintendo is a toy company. They don’t want to compete; they want to be the only company that sells [blank]. It’s their “blue ocean” strategy.
And on DS they had Zelda games with puzzles that required all kinds of touchscreen, microphone, and hinge bullshit. You get a stamp to mark a map… but there’s no button to use it. It’s on the top screen, so you can’t use the stylus. You have to close the system to bring it down onto the paper.
Even their literally-an-Android-tablet handheld, the Switch, has the incomparable advantage of being a portable console. They sell the only tablet with buttons. It plays multiplatform games just fine. I have no goddamn idea how they were the first to really do this, but I guess everyone in the tablet industry remains devoted to copying Apple.