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Wii Can Learn From Nintendo
Damien has written a great piece on the Wii as a reference for product design, and I completely agree with him.
Chris, one of our Confluence engineers, brought his Wii into the office last week (slow week, Christmas and all) and I was quite taken by it. It's a marvel of engineering and something that has obviously had a lot of thought. I think this is a key point.
Did the Xbox 360 designers or the PS3 designers really think about what they were designing? Is it that innovative to take an old design, pack in more, faster, better chips, a newer (Blu Ray) medium and a bigger hard drive? It may be tough to engineer these things to work together, but it's not innovation. Where Nintendo is shining now - I'm told the Wii is outselling the PS3 almost 3-to-1 in the US, is because they've innovated.
Expect more exciting Wii news in the near future.
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Confluence running on a Wii? The Jira Wii plugin?
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