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GamesRadar is still going? Wow!... I thought it must have died in the DotCom crash? ... I remeber when it looked like it was turning into quite a cool site? ... anyway, whilst walking down memeory lane, I found this there...
'Nintendo boss says the company will instead just focus on developing games
Gamecube may be Nintendo's last console. This was the shock news that was revealed at a analyst meeting yesterday by recently appointed Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata.
In talking about Ninty's future direction, Iwata said that the company would focus on making better games and expanding its share of the games market as opposed to designing ever-more powerful consoles.
"We're reaching the limits of how far we can appeal to consumers by boosting the machine's performance or providing more compelling graphics and sound," he said. "I feel like a chef cooking for a king who's full."
This is not to say that he's not ambitious for Gamecube though, saying that Nintendo intend to shift a staggering 50 million Cubes by March 2005.
The company recently announced annual profits of 106 billion yen ($849 million), an increase of 10% from the previous year, although Iwata expressed concern over the console war.
"Price cuts in software could destroy the game industry," he said. "The effort to produce machines with better technology has reached its limit. If things continue, they may lead to the decline of the entire games industry."'
'Nintendo boss says the company will instead just focus on developing games
Gamecube may be Nintendo's last console. This was the shock news that was revealed at a analyst meeting yesterday by recently appointed Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata.
In talking about Ninty's future direction, Iwata said that the company would focus on making better games and expanding its share of the games market as opposed to designing ever-more powerful consoles.
"We're reaching the limits of how far we can appeal to consumers by boosting the machine's performance or providing more compelling graphics and sound," he said. "I feel like a chef cooking for a king who's full."
This is not to say that he's not ambitious for Gamecube though, saying that Nintendo intend to shift a staggering 50 million Cubes by March 2005.
The company recently announced annual profits of 106 billion yen ($849 million), an increase of 10% from the previous year, although Iwata expressed concern over the console war.
"Price cuts in software could destroy the game industry," he said. "The effort to produce machines with better technology has reached its limit. If things continue, they may lead to the decline of the entire games industry."'
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I plan to be rich every year. Unfortunatly that stupid lottery machine keeps kicking those plans to the kerb with stupid numbers !
savatt1668 wrote:
> No doubt a number of Ninty fanboys will start cutting their wrists if
> this news is made official.
My wrists are still fine.
2005. Thats like when I plan to be rich and everything.
LOL :-D
> No doubt a number of Ninty fanboys will start cutting their wrists if
> this news is made official.
My wrists are still fine.
2005. Thats like when I plan to be rich and everything.
LOL :-D
No doubt a number of Ninty fanboys will start cutting their wrists if this news is made official.
Recent events have lead me to want to convince myself I still love Nintendo.
I still love Nintendo.
I still love Nintendo.
swander87 wrote:
> Still, the shift from console prices to software is about to happen
> pretty soon, so Nintendo could still do well. It's like how the N64
> was regarded as a faliure, but sold millions. The GCN is doing OK,
> just not amazingly like the PS2...I think it's much ado about nothing,
> personally.
It certainly looks as if consoles may move toward hardware manufactuerers and software developers...
The times of joint developer/manufacterer position which Nintendo and SEGA both famously held seems to we waning?
Although Sony still does a lot of software development (Everquest and a few PS titles come to mind) they seem to take an interest more as part of a larger corporation, rather than an intrinsicly linked software/harder developers?
> Still, the shift from console prices to software is about to happen
> pretty soon, so Nintendo could still do well. It's like how the N64
> was regarded as a faliure, but sold millions. The GCN is doing OK,
> just not amazingly like the PS2...I think it's much ado about nothing,
> personally.
It certainly looks as if consoles may move toward hardware manufactuerers and software developers...
The times of joint developer/manufacterer position which Nintendo and SEGA both famously held seems to we waning?
Although Sony still does a lot of software development (Everquest and a few PS titles come to mind) they seem to take an interest more as part of a larger corporation, rather than an intrinsicly linked software/harder developers?
In another thread (started by pb, I think, a few days ago) I said how Sega could join Nintendo, and they could both make a new console together when the next generation rolls around, as at the moment Sega are reaping the profits from their software, and Nintendo are thinking about packing it in.
Still, the shift from console prices to software is about to happen pretty soon, so Nintendo could still do well. It's like how the N64 was regarded as a faliure, but sold millions. The GCN is doing OK, just not amazingly like the PS2...I think it's much ado about nothing, personally.
Still, the shift from console prices to software is about to happen pretty soon, so Nintendo could still do well. It's like how the N64 was regarded as a faliure, but sold millions. The GCN is doing OK, just not amazingly like the PS2...I think it's much ado about nothing, personally.
½pint wrote:
> As much as people now say they hate it, Pokemon games will still sell
> bucketloads, and since the GBA is the only competing handheld I don't
> think it will go down just yet. Nintendo may stop making consoles,
> but they'll always be making GameBoys. Always.
Are pokemon still about? ... Did anyone ever actually like them?!?
Still... It would be an unusual choice for Nintendo to relinquish the handheld market without a fight... (especially given their current lack of competition?)...
Though Ive heard rumors, on and off, of MS and Sonys interest in the hand-held market, I've yet to see anything emerge?
> As much as people now say they hate it, Pokemon games will still sell
> bucketloads, and since the GBA is the only competing handheld I don't
> think it will go down just yet. Nintendo may stop making consoles,
> but they'll always be making GameBoys. Always.
Are pokemon still about? ... Did anyone ever actually like them?!?
Still... It would be an unusual choice for Nintendo to relinquish the handheld market without a fight... (especially given their current lack of competition?)...
Though Ive heard rumors, on and off, of MS and Sonys interest in the hand-held market, I've yet to see anything emerge?
I hope Nintendo doesn't go publisher only, like Sega. If it did, it would show how much Sony's entering the market really did to videogames. Anyway, what I would be worried about if they did go multiplatform was the quality of the games.
Sega was renowned for great games. On the dreamcast, there were classics such as Crazy Taxi, Sony Adventure, Phantasy Star Online. However, after going multiplatform, the quality of releases has been almost unanimously poor. All the Crazy Taxi iterations were aweful, lingering in mediocrity. The same can be said about Sonic Adventure 2 on the GameCube, Jet Set Radio Future on the Xbox (Its fun, but then it gets seriously boring and lacks finess) and all the PS2 reincarnations such as Ecco the Dolphin and Crazy Taxi.
The reason for Sega becoming a lot more like EA is because now they don't have an R&D department to consult on shady issues. Kenji Kanno, the producer of Crazy Taxi 3 said
"I'd say that Sega is very different from any other thirdparties. We used to have our own platforms to develop on so when we had a problem, it was very easy to get the answer from the hardware R&D department. For the first time, we understood what it was to be a thirdparty. Its not easy"
Perhaps that is the reason why Nintendo makes such amazing games. Because of the hardware/software links, games can be made around the console, not for the console. Also, because Nintendo make their own consoles, they can make them to fit in with the types of games they make.
If Nintendo were to go thirdparty it would be aweful, but as far as I can see its not going to happen.
As much as people now say they hate it, Pokemon games will still sell bucketloads, and since the GBA is the only competing handheld I don't think it will go down just yet. Nintendo may stop making consoles, but they'll always be making GameBoys. Always.
Sega was renowned for great games. On the dreamcast, there were classics such as Crazy Taxi, Sony Adventure, Phantasy Star Online. However, after going multiplatform, the quality of releases has been almost unanimously poor. All the Crazy Taxi iterations were aweful, lingering in mediocrity. The same can be said about Sonic Adventure 2 on the GameCube, Jet Set Radio Future on the Xbox (Its fun, but then it gets seriously boring and lacks finess) and all the PS2 reincarnations such as Ecco the Dolphin and Crazy Taxi.
The reason for Sega becoming a lot more like EA is because now they don't have an R&D department to consult on shady issues. Kenji Kanno, the producer of Crazy Taxi 3 said
"I'd say that Sega is very different from any other thirdparties. We used to have our own platforms to develop on so when we had a problem, it was very easy to get the answer from the hardware R&D department. For the first time, we understood what it was to be a thirdparty. Its not easy"
Perhaps that is the reason why Nintendo makes such amazing games. Because of the hardware/software links, games can be made around the console, not for the console. Also, because Nintendo make their own consoles, they can make them to fit in with the types of games they make.
If Nintendo were to go thirdparty it would be aweful, but as far as I can see its not going to happen.
As much as people now say they hate it, Pokemon games will still sell bucketloads, and since the GBA is the only competing handheld I don't think it will go down just yet. Nintendo may stop making consoles, but they'll always be making GameBoys. Always.
yep. Iwota (or whatever his name is...head of Nintendo) said that the GameCube has been designed to handle anything, it can take anything the developer throws at it. It's versatile and has room for expansion. Too right that he shouldn't want to keep upgrading their consoles with higher and higher specs.
Yamauchi also said that the GameCube is expected to last 7 years!
Yamauchi also said that the GameCube is expected to last 7 years!
For Nintendo to make the best games they need a console they can work on. Nintendo are placing spin, basically "We are the only company that can make new original fresh titles unlike the others who make the same games wkith different music and better graphics"
They're simpley saying we are the best and no one else is because they are blind to the public getting bored.
They're simpley saying we are the best and no one else is because they are blind to the public getting bored.
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