We're not rocket scientists, but we can tell when one product looks strikingly similar to another. And when we looked over the evolution of Nintendo and Apple hardware over the years, we identified some interesting trends. Take a look for yourself and ask: has Nintendo drawn inspiration -- or worse, outright stole -- from Apple's designs, or is it mere coincidence?
The name "Hewson" carries a special weight for anyone who grew up during the golden age of British computing. As the son of Andrew Hewson—the man behind legendary publisher Hewson Consultants—Rob Hewson didn't just grow up playing video games; he learned to spell his name from their title screens. However, Rob didn't just rest on his family's 8-bit laurels. From leading major LEGO franchises at TT Games to tackling the high-stakes world of technical porting at Huey Games, Rob has carved out a unique path in an ever-evolving industry. In this candid interview Rob to discussed the burden and beauty of a family legacy, the technical "scar tissue" left by the ambitious Hydrophobia, and why porting a masterpiece like Inscryption to consoles is far more than a simple copy-paste job.
NE: "We rank the 10 best main series Super Mario games in celebration of the recent MAR10 Day with 2D and 3D included."
Best 2D, Mario World, best 3D, Mario 64. Can't say there's been a bad one, although Mario World 2 wasn't a true sequel. The Mario Land games were good (not the first one) and also Wario Land. I thought after Mario 64, Mario 3D World was excellent.
Believe it not, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is almost ten years old. It was a massive game for many reasons – it launched alongside Nintendo Switch, was a new take for the series by going fully open-world, and introduced various aspects like voice acting in a mainline game for the characters.
Concerning the look of Wii U controller there is no doubt that the Ipad has been copied, but the Wii U remote have other functionalities according to Nintendo.
All these fonctionnalities will be showed certainly sooner than we think.
Anyway in the industry everyone is copying everyone, Nintendo or others may have different politic it doesn't mean they don't look what each other does...
It's gambling on the future, on what is expected to be.
Nintendo thinks that the public will be more and more Apple friendly so they take their dispositions to be part of that game.
These days is hard to come up with something new or original without someone saying it was stolen/copied.
This situation is similar to the movie Avatar....everyone says it was like watching "Dances with wolves" Despite that, I don't think it was James Camrons intentions to copy/or get ideas from another movie. There just isn't enough ideas out there that one can use with-out stepping on someone else toes.
So much negativity towards Nintendo these days lol It's crazy
eermm!!! which company is also building a tablet pad, that looks identical to the ipad, o thats right sony.
u might see apple copy nintendo now and stick 2 circle pads and buttons on the ipad perhaps
Wow people are taking this serious. It is all comical to me. For it to have any legitimacy nintendo would have to be the most effective company in the world in the secretive business of corporate espionage to poop out a product with a release date THAT close to apple products they allegedly resemble.