Nintendo May Gain Ground as Microsoft and Sony Wait Until 2014 For New Consoles

Well trust me i told myself when wii came out never buying a new nintendo again, and I am going to follow through with it. They need to learn something about originality for once

Originality? I'm pretty sure everyone, not just Nintendo, stopped being original ages ago.

But @wildmario 5 years of a game is much better then 20+ i mean how many mario's, zeldas, metroids, sonics and yes im not including sonic as nintendo but still alot of years of exclusivity toward them

Hahaha, err, what? Nintendo Unoriginal? Weren't they the first company to try to use Rumble Packs with their games? Didn't they come up with the idea of Dual Screens + a Touchscreen for Handhelds? Didn't they come up with the idea of Motion Control + Pointing for console gaming? What have Sony and Microsoft done that was original? The Sony controller hasn't changed since the PS1 other than adding some Joysticks, but even the first PS1 controller looked exactly like an SNES controller. The Xbox controller was essentially the same thing as the Playstation one, just with the joysticks moved around a bit.

If you're talking about games, then what Sony or Microsoft produced game has been original either? I can only think of Shadow of the Colossus or Ico from Sony, and I can't think of any games that Microsoft has developed themselves that could be considered original.

@rinnon you keep thinking that and innovative is not always original so please don't mix up the two and please 5 years of halo is so terrible compared to 25 years of ****ing mario brothers?! are you joking dont even try to compare games that have yearly distances no where near close. Nintendo is garbage along with every one of their fanboys.

I don't care if it is 3 years or 40 years. When something gets stale, it will show, no matter who is behind the product.

213EDD, I think it is you who is confused. Innovation in the hardware of the consoles allows for new an original concepts to be created and it's why it has Sony and Microsoft running scared looking to copy. Nintendo opened up new markets by introducing new styles of games (Brain age? Cooking Mama? Nintendogs?). Sure they may not be your cup of tea, especially if Halo is your bag, but I for one am sick of the constant naddering about the latest first person shooter that changes only slightly from the last iteration.
While Mario may be a worn character, you have to admit that the game play is almost always fresh when a new one comes out (Save for The New Super Mario Bros. which is a very obvious ploy to prey on our nostalgia and even still manages to change things). The differences between Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Galaxy are pretty stark in terms of sophistication.

@213EDD Get back to me when there are no more Calls of Duty, Halos, Killzones, Ratchets & Clanks, Gods of War, Uncharteds, Resident Evils, Bioshocks, Battlefields, Fables, Gran Turismos, Needs for Speed, SOCOMs, Grand Theft Autos...maybe you should stop buying every console from now on.

...and the Nintendo fanbois and reared their ugly heads. God forbid anyone dare to consider the fact that twenty years of the same silly characters doing the same silly things would ever get stale.

"Brain age? Cooking Mama? Nintendogs?"

What about them? Brain Age is nothing more or less than console version of a Flash game that's been around for years, Cooking Mama isn't even a game, it's tutorial on cooking. Granted, it's not a terrible idea, but it's not a game. Nintendogs, it's just a more graphically pleasing version of a Tamagotchi. If you're going to tout the great achievements of Nintendo in the realm of creativity, you really need to pick some better examples.

Now, as to Nintendo releasing a new console ahead of Sony and Microsoft, I say so what? The Wii is a last gen console with motion controls. At this point Nintendo is playing catch up.

You may disagree that Brain Age, Cooking Mama and Nintendogs did something and important but lets look at it a different way:
What has Apple done? They've marketed MP3 players when they existed for years and somehow they're hailed for their genius. They made smart phones - yet they were obviously late to the market. Somehow they've made tablets take off too and thought original for it, despite the fact that tablets have been around for a decade.

Maybe innovation and originality means more than just doing something new and instead can also mean making something reach a new audience. You may not like it but face it, you're not always their target demographic.

And I'm no fanboi, I just hate it when people are so obviously wrong. Each system has their own franchises that keep their system running. It just so happens that Nintendo has a much longer history in the market.