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You’ve all heard the rumour. Gamecube could be Nintendo’s last console. They’re going to do something that Microsoft and Sony won’t – and that’s to stop making other consoles.
While Sony and Microsoft are inevitably already beavering away on designs for the PS3 and Xbox 2, Nintendo are planning a revolutionary approach to future console gaming, and that’s to place their emphasis on quality, innovative software, rather than increasing the power of hardware – which certainly gives a sure sign that there isn’t going be a Gamecube successor any time soon.
Why?
Because, according to Nintendo’s new President, Satoru Iwata, the “Current level of technology is perfectly adequate” and “In a climate where higher polygon counts and faster processing speed is becoming a preoccupation with developers”, it’s easy to forget that it’s inventive gaming that’s carried Nintendo since the NES.
This is obviously taking a slight dig at the competition that is Sony and Microsoft, who, as I said, are already planning consoles which incredible power. If they do this, games that will follow will inevitably be based around graphics, with unoriginal ideas, just silly remakes under different names with slight character variation. Maybe storylines will be different, but the actual idea is the same – it’s nothing new.
That’s what Nintendo want to change, They want to be the first to concentrate on new ideas for games. Which is why they want to distance themselves between the ongoing, raging war that is occurring between Sony’s and Microsoft’s giant multimedia machines.
According to Nintendo, it doesn’t matter how many machines Sony and Microsoft sell, so long as they make their software “…attractive enough to drive consumers to buy our hardware” Mr Iwata also sent out a grave message obviously as a warning to the industry: “We Can’t be too optimistic about the games market. No matter what great products you come up with, people get bored.” He’s right, isn’t he? As a Ninty – and other Nintys are bound to agree – I pride myself upon owning great innovative titles that keep spewing from Nintendo’s creative brains, but even Nintendo will run out of ideas sooner or later. So, is it really a good idea to carry out Iwata’s plan? I think so. We need new games, to keep gamers interested. At E3 (you all know what E3 is, right?), there was easily enough evidence to suggest that (Nintendo’s stand aside ) the market s already inundated with horridly boring clones of already well established gaming genres. Look how many third-person adventures, platformers and irritating cartoon licenses that kept popping around at E3, all identical from the visuals and front end.
I think Nintendo are wise fellows to stick with the Gamecube. It’s easily the console best for quick, easy development, which leads to outstanding results at the same time! It’s a developer’s dream, no doubt, that they can spend more time on creating innovative ideas, and then quickly convert them into real forms to see the outcome, and then keep on using trial and error to finally end up with the desired end product. If the Gamecube can do that, then the prospects are bright, and with Nintendo fellows at the helm, never before seen games should be ripe for the pickin’.
Iwata also 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 industry”.
Do you think that’s an overreaction? Or do you think it’s time that NIntendo, Microsoft and Sony stick to their already impressive consoles and leave it to developers to create new, interesting, inventive, high-quality gaming? Why should Sony and Microsoft make a brand-new console with better specs, only to find that developers find coding and programming harder and more time-consuming? Sure, the graphical outcome would be, no doubt, outstanding, but to push them hard enough to spend as much time upon making the game a treat to play? Even if developers did manage this, surely the gap between each game released would be substantial? Maybe, maybe not, Sony and Microsoft may make their new consoles developer friendly, we’ll see.
But I’d just like to say, that I won’t be against Nintendo being a software-only company like Sega, if they’re willing to place more of an emphasis on the quality of games.
*Inspired by NGC
Thanks for reading.
Shocky.
While Sony and Microsoft are inevitably already beavering away on designs for the PS3 and Xbox 2, Nintendo are planning a revolutionary approach to future console gaming, and that’s to place their emphasis on quality, innovative software, rather than increasing the power of hardware – which certainly gives a sure sign that there isn’t going be a Gamecube successor any time soon.
Why?
Because, according to Nintendo’s new President, Satoru Iwata, the “Current level of technology is perfectly adequate” and “In a climate where higher polygon counts and faster processing speed is becoming a preoccupation with developers”, it’s easy to forget that it’s inventive gaming that’s carried Nintendo since the NES.
This is obviously taking a slight dig at the competition that is Sony and Microsoft, who, as I said, are already planning consoles which incredible power. If they do this, games that will follow will inevitably be based around graphics, with unoriginal ideas, just silly remakes under different names with slight character variation. Maybe storylines will be different, but the actual idea is the same – it’s nothing new.
That’s what Nintendo want to change, They want to be the first to concentrate on new ideas for games. Which is why they want to distance themselves between the ongoing, raging war that is occurring between Sony’s and Microsoft’s giant multimedia machines.
According to Nintendo, it doesn’t matter how many machines Sony and Microsoft sell, so long as they make their software “…attractive enough to drive consumers to buy our hardware” Mr Iwata also sent out a grave message obviously as a warning to the industry: “We Can’t be too optimistic about the games market. No matter what great products you come up with, people get bored.” He’s right, isn’t he? As a Ninty – and other Nintys are bound to agree – I pride myself upon owning great innovative titles that keep spewing from Nintendo’s creative brains, but even Nintendo will run out of ideas sooner or later. So, is it really a good idea to carry out Iwata’s plan? I think so. We need new games, to keep gamers interested. At E3 (you all know what E3 is, right?), there was easily enough evidence to suggest that (Nintendo’s stand aside ) the market s already inundated with horridly boring clones of already well established gaming genres. Look how many third-person adventures, platformers and irritating cartoon licenses that kept popping around at E3, all identical from the visuals and front end.
I think Nintendo are wise fellows to stick with the Gamecube. It’s easily the console best for quick, easy development, which leads to outstanding results at the same time! It’s a developer’s dream, no doubt, that they can spend more time on creating innovative ideas, and then quickly convert them into real forms to see the outcome, and then keep on using trial and error to finally end up with the desired end product. If the Gamecube can do that, then the prospects are bright, and with Nintendo fellows at the helm, never before seen games should be ripe for the pickin’.
Iwata also 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 industry”.
Do you think that’s an overreaction? Or do you think it’s time that NIntendo, Microsoft and Sony stick to their already impressive consoles and leave it to developers to create new, interesting, inventive, high-quality gaming? Why should Sony and Microsoft make a brand-new console with better specs, only to find that developers find coding and programming harder and more time-consuming? Sure, the graphical outcome would be, no doubt, outstanding, but to push them hard enough to spend as much time upon making the game a treat to play? Even if developers did manage this, surely the gap between each game released would be substantial? Maybe, maybe not, Sony and Microsoft may make their new consoles developer friendly, we’ll see.
But I’d just like to say, that I won’t be against Nintendo being a software-only company like Sega, if they’re willing to place more of an emphasis on the quality of games.
*Inspired by NGC
Thanks for reading.
Shocky.
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AfroJoe wrote:
> Yup.
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> That'll be enough time to get me a GC.
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> :D
Do you mean you haven't got one yet :-0
> Yup.
>
> That'll be enough time to get me a GC.
>
> :D
Do you mean you haven't got one yet :-0
Yup.
That'll be enough time to get me a GC.
:D
That'll be enough time to get me a GC.
:D
On the plus side at least we will be able to play on our gamecubes for 6 years before they stop producing software.
'Twas a good post there Shocktrooper! :D
Lol, ok Fuzzy, lad, I thought you were gonna be all suspicious on me...:-D
Thanks for calling me a good poster.
*Cries*
Thanks for calling me a good poster.
*Cries*
I never sau you copied it lol :D, you're a good poster, I was just saying
:D Good post by the way
:D Good post by the way
It was inspiration.
I used their words exactly when it came to Iwata's quotes, but the rest was me, so don't think I copied it.
Of course, the ideas of this post wren't just inspired by NGC, but these forums, too, because I've been reading poeples' views, but no-one made a long post about it.
So I thought: Why not?
Hope that's cleared it up?
I used their words exactly when it came to Iwata's quotes, but the rest was me, so don't think I copied it.
Of course, the ideas of this post wren't just inspired by NGC, but these forums, too, because I've been reading poeples' views, but no-one made a long post about it.
So I thought: Why not?
Hope that's cleared it up?
I saw an article like this in NGC magazine..
Inspiration?
Inspiration?
This topic has been done before, I know, but I wanted to make a topic of it myself, even if it will, unfortunately, spark console war confrontations - but could you reply, please?
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