9th December 2003, 9:18 PM
They really do have a death wish. From IGN:
Online games have been a "false start"??? Richer graphics and good stories are a bad thing??
With this attitude I don't expect Nintendo to last in the hardware business for much longer. They're more stubborn than ever!
I wonder how Denis Dyack feels about all of this. All of the games he's worked on have had great storylines, with ED being one of the most story-intensive of them all.
*sigh*
You know, I agree with Nintendo that there's not a whole lot of innovation and "newness" any more, but they're certainly not changing that! Every single one of their 2003 GC titles were sequels, and sequels that were little more than graphical updates to their predecessors! The hypocrisy is simply astounding.
Quote:December 09, 2003 - News publication Time Magazine recently featured an article in which it dissected Nintendo's game plan, or seeming lack thereof. The magazine criticized Nintendo's short supply of pioneering software and indicated that the company "seems to be suffering from game-development gridlock."
It also dismissed Nintendo's Pac-Man vs., stating; "The fact that the program itself was an update of Pac-Man (which debuted in 1980), however, tended to undercut the message that this was a particularly thrilling innovation."
Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata reiterated the company's feeling that prettier, deeper, online-supported games are not the answer. Time wrote: "Online video games have been a false start so far, Iwata asserts, which is why he has no plans to lead Nintendo in that direction. The current path taken by game developers toward more cinematic graphics, richer story lines and complicated controls is a blind alley that, he says, will only worsen the current 'nothing's new' ennui felt by many consumers."
Iwata pointed once more to simplistic, intuitive software that anybody can play as the way to go.
Time Magazine, meanwhile, suggested that Nintendo's future may be as a third-party software company and not a hardware manufacturer.
Online games have been a "false start"??? Richer graphics and good stories are a bad thing??
With this attitude I don't expect Nintendo to last in the hardware business for much longer. They're more stubborn than ever!
I wonder how Denis Dyack feels about all of this. All of the games he's worked on have had great storylines, with ED being one of the most story-intensive of them all.
*sigh*
You know, I agree with Nintendo that there's not a whole lot of innovation and "newness" any more, but they're certainly not changing that! Every single one of their 2003 GC titles were sequels, and sequels that were little more than graphical updates to their predecessors! The hypocrisy is simply astounding.