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It looks like the tight fisted, highly strung, angersome, hateful and unforgiving Hiroshi Yamauchi, the top man of Nintendo is really soft at heart.
Gambling on the stock market, he has managed to gain a profit of Ľ20,000,000,000 which is around Ł100,000,000.
Apparantly, with his new profits he is going to use them to help small time developers no matter where in the world they are to create and develop games for Game Boy Advance and GameCube.
However, it is a loan these developers will recieve, supposedly at low-interest, but we all know what Hiroshi Yamauchi and Nintendo can be like with changing their minds.
If, however, this all goes to plan, then we could be seeing a whole lot of new ideas coming to GameCube, maybe even as exclusives, which will seriously boost the number of titles the GameCube has. That will mean there will be direct competition with the Playstation 2 which currently has a backload of all the PSOne games that are still on the maket! Nintendo lost out on the number of titles with the N64 (even though Nintendo won with the total percentage of quality titles) so, to try and win over Sony fans Yamauchi will probably suprise us with a few more 'interesting' plans to bring the company 'back to the top of the food chain.'
But, what we haven't been told is whether this money he's lending will mean these titles that are produced will definately be exclusive to GameCube. Will it be a binding agreement as a result of accepting the loans? Or will we see new titles being produced for Playstation 2 and X-box?
This could be a bad move for Yamauchi. He could be funding the Playstation 2 and X-box's new line up of games without even realising it, but is it a risk he has to take? Some critics would probably say it is: Nintendo had a lot of bad luck with the N64, and the lack of advertising compared to Sony's 'stadium advertising' and TV adverts appearing all the time, there was no way you could spend the day without seeing the Sony logo apearing somewhere. Nintendo just didn't have enough publicity and had to rely on their most loyal Super Nintendo fans from the 16-bit era. However, the Game Boy Color did exceptionally well and made the Game Boy the most popular console in the world selling more than any other console to date. This was due to the massive Japanese Pokémon craze, which unlike here in Britain, is still a big thing in Japan. There have been Pokémon movies, Pokémon trading cards, Pokémon board games, Pokémon consoles and even 'adult' Pokémon toys!
This new move by Yamauchi, could on the other hand, make the GameCube and Game Boy ADvance even more popular by having a huge amount of developers producing their own styles of games, like on the ZX Spectrum in the early 1980's with developers like Riccochet, Codemasters, Mastertronic and Ocean producing top quality titles and many of them. The ZX Spectrum was considered as one of the most powerful consoles of it's time, and it couldn't even hold more than 3 colours at a time without risk of crashing, unlike it's rivals Commodore and Atari! So will we Nintendo fans get our own new style of games coming to the GameCube as exclusives, or will we see many a new developer, producing for all consoles, funded moronically by Nintendo?
Gambling on the stock market, he has managed to gain a profit of Ľ20,000,000,000 which is around Ł100,000,000.
Apparantly, with his new profits he is going to use them to help small time developers no matter where in the world they are to create and develop games for Game Boy Advance and GameCube.
However, it is a loan these developers will recieve, supposedly at low-interest, but we all know what Hiroshi Yamauchi and Nintendo can be like with changing their minds.
If, however, this all goes to plan, then we could be seeing a whole lot of new ideas coming to GameCube, maybe even as exclusives, which will seriously boost the number of titles the GameCube has. That will mean there will be direct competition with the Playstation 2 which currently has a backload of all the PSOne games that are still on the maket! Nintendo lost out on the number of titles with the N64 (even though Nintendo won with the total percentage of quality titles) so, to try and win over Sony fans Yamauchi will probably suprise us with a few more 'interesting' plans to bring the company 'back to the top of the food chain.'
But, what we haven't been told is whether this money he's lending will mean these titles that are produced will definately be exclusive to GameCube. Will it be a binding agreement as a result of accepting the loans? Or will we see new titles being produced for Playstation 2 and X-box?
This could be a bad move for Yamauchi. He could be funding the Playstation 2 and X-box's new line up of games without even realising it, but is it a risk he has to take? Some critics would probably say it is: Nintendo had a lot of bad luck with the N64, and the lack of advertising compared to Sony's 'stadium advertising' and TV adverts appearing all the time, there was no way you could spend the day without seeing the Sony logo apearing somewhere. Nintendo just didn't have enough publicity and had to rely on their most loyal Super Nintendo fans from the 16-bit era. However, the Game Boy Color did exceptionally well and made the Game Boy the most popular console in the world selling more than any other console to date. This was due to the massive Japanese Pokémon craze, which unlike here in Britain, is still a big thing in Japan. There have been Pokémon movies, Pokémon trading cards, Pokémon board games, Pokémon consoles and even 'adult' Pokémon toys!
This new move by Yamauchi, could on the other hand, make the GameCube and Game Boy ADvance even more popular by having a huge amount of developers producing their own styles of games, like on the ZX Spectrum in the early 1980's with developers like Riccochet, Codemasters, Mastertronic and Ocean producing top quality titles and many of them. The ZX Spectrum was considered as one of the most powerful consoles of it's time, and it couldn't even hold more than 3 colours at a time without risk of crashing, unlike it's rivals Commodore and Atari! So will we Nintendo fans get our own new style of games coming to the GameCube as exclusives, or will we see many a new developer, producing for all consoles, funded moronically by Nintendo?
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The kind that young kids wouldn't know what to do with.
Where did I hear about that? I saw a bit of "Ah So Graham Norton" ages ago and he showed a shop with Pokémon printed on "adult" toys. And on the same shelf was kids trading cards (as well as adult trading cards).
That was on Channel 4 ages ago.
Where did I hear about that? I saw a bit of "Ah So Graham Norton" ages ago and he showed a shop with Pokémon printed on "adult" toys. And on the same shelf was kids trading cards (as well as adult trading cards).
That was on Channel 4 ages ago.
Their's a Tetris game on the Dreamcast, and there are many on PC.
Just remmember Nintendo bought Tetris. It made the Gameboy reach stardom and Nintendo still have it today, they are buying the game.
It's not as simple as that. Games will never be exclusive while the company don't actually own them.
It's not as simple as that. Games will never be exclusive while the company don't actually own them.
Nah hes buying game names you see not making games exclusive as in the normal sense of the word as the contract normally runs out. Shenmue 2 isnt x-box exclusive but is for a while he is simply helping small developers who are ALREADY making games for GBA and GC make them and if they turn out to be the next big thing ala Pokemon he will snap it up.
This is old news Edgy mate :D
This is old news Edgy mate :D
big_slow, the Xbox is broadband only I'm afraid.
DeltaJava wrote:
> Straignt from NGC magazine once again.
No, only inspired by that tiny paragraph in the top right corner.
If I copied it word for word and didn't add any of my own ideas then fair enough, I'd say it was a copy. But I didn't just report the few lines of text, I explained how it could effect gaming of the future.
Where do you think Meka, Ant, Grix and all the others on here get their news from? They don't live in the developers offices and overhear conversations. They find the news from media sources then explain them and say how these things may effect gaming.
If you really believe this to be an exact copy of the NGC magazine article, then please go ahead and report this to the moderators here.
> Straignt from NGC magazine once again.
No, only inspired by that tiny paragraph in the top right corner.
If I copied it word for word and didn't add any of my own ideas then fair enough, I'd say it was a copy. But I didn't just report the few lines of text, I explained how it could effect gaming of the future.
Where do you think Meka, Ant, Grix and all the others on here get their news from? They don't live in the developers offices and overhear conversations. They find the news from media sources then explain them and say how these things may effect gaming.
If you really believe this to be an exact copy of the NGC magazine article, then please go ahead and report this to the moderators here.
i do hope gamecube does well because ive ordered one but atleast ive always got my trusty ps2 as a backup.
now im not really interested in the consoles as i was a few years ago, i just want the internet connection and multiplayer gaming. it sounds really cool. Nascar on XBOX alows your to have 32 players racing at once!
now im not really interested in the consoles as i was a few years ago, i just want the internet connection and multiplayer gaming. it sounds really cool. Nascar on XBOX alows your to have 32 players racing at once!
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