18th March 2005, 3:24 PM
No, he's right: Nintendo created the system he described as it is -- deciding which games you can publish, payment not based on sales, etc... that is absolutely true.
He later said this, though, on his blog.
http://www.costik.com/weblog/
He later said this, though, on his blog.
http://www.costik.com/weblog/
Quote:Some explanatory notes: I'm playing off the Microsoft and Nintendo keynotes. Microsoft gave away 1000 Samsung HDTVs to roughly one in three of their audience (you got a tag when you entered that was black, blue, or yellow, and yellow wound up winning). Nintendo's keynote was actually pretty good--Iwata-san, now Nintendo's president, explained his past as an actual game developer, with the claim that "I have the heart of a gamer." I was inordinately cruel to him, really; Microsoft came across as greedheads, while Nintendo came across as a company that, when you get down to it, does care about gameplay and innovation. But--they did set up the basic console model for games, they have acted like greedheads in the past, and, well, it was too good a line to pass up.
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