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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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Hirsoshi Yamauchi still doesnt have as much spending power as Sony and MS as they dont depend on the games industry alone and they are doing well in the other industries they are involved in, I hope he uses it to satisy european nintendo fans as quick as possible not making them see conversions like 2 years after the japanese version is released.
DeltaJava wrote:
> Straignt from NGC magazine once again.
So? Hardly anyone gets NGC, and this is a very interesting story.
> Straignt from NGC magazine once again.
So? Hardly anyone gets NGC, and this is a very interesting story.
Straignt from NGC magazine once again.
Tiltawhirl wrote:
> You see I misread the title, I could have sworn it said Hiroshi Yamauchi got
> fist..... anyway.
lol :)
Wait a minute....you mean it doesn't?
> You see I misread the title, I could have sworn it said Hiroshi Yamauchi got
> fist..... anyway.
lol :)
Wait a minute....you mean it doesn't?
It's funny how Tomb Raider was advertised as a Sony exclusive when it was first released on the Saturn!
You'll mostly find that Nintendo's own games and a few others by very small developers are the ones going to be made exclusive to one console.
You'll mostly find that Nintendo's own games and a few others by very small developers are the ones going to be made exclusive to one console.
You see I misread the title, I could have sworn it said Hiroshi Yamauchi got fist..... anyway.
The decision will probably have mixed outcomes. Because, as Edgy said...it could mean a lot more "GameCube exclusive" games, but didn't anyone realise something about a so-called "exclusive" game?
The Tomb Raider series was supposed to only ever be a "PlayStation exclusive" game, yet it has since appeared on the PC, Game Boy Color and Dreamcast. So what's to stop other "console exclusive" games appearing on other machines? Something to ponder over, I think....
The Tomb Raider series was supposed to only ever be a "PlayStation exclusive" game, yet it has since appeared on the PC, Game Boy Color and Dreamcast. So what's to stop other "console exclusive" games appearing on other machines? Something to ponder over, I think....
Interesting, although I think it'd be money better spent securing exlcusives. Funding new developers is one thing, but Ł100m doesn't go that far, and once the money's run out it's a bit of a problem, expecially seeing as Sony are notoriously friendly to new developers by giving them free offices, dev kits, and shedloads of help.
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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