Comments on: Editorial: Nintendo Poops the Bed

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Mon, 23 Mar 2015 05:40:13 +0000

"I worry about Nintendo feeling the effects of how easy it is to make money in horrible ways and therefore sending its greedy business side to push these elements onto its reawakening creative side." This. And I would be less concerned if we were not seeing them already playing with these concepts in games like Pokemon Shuffle. Be afraid.

By: Ethos

Ethos — Sun, 22 Mar 2015 17:25:58 +0000

I really hope (but don’t quite have the faith) that this is just its own separate horrible arm and will be left to its own devices (so to speak) and doesn’t bleed over. I don’t worry about Nintendo’s best developers, I worry about Nintendo feeling the effects of how easy it is to make money in horrible ways and therefore sending its greedy business side to push these elements onto its reawakening creative side.

Or, in other words
“I do think there’s a slim chance Nintendo can flourish with this opportunity and use it as a cash flow to fund more traditional console efforts. That’s what they’d have us believe, anyway. But last time Nintendo spoke of supporting a new device while maintaining support for an old one, we got the DS and lost the GBA. They were clear on their messaging of the DS as a “third pillar”, and it just wasn’t their intent at all. A worrisome precedent that might not necessarily apply here, but still… ugh.

I’m not going to get too caught up in it until I see a clearer picture of what Nintendo actually IS doing, and not what they or DeNA say they’ll do.”
This.

And I wouldn’t say that wasn’t their intent at all. It was their intent if the DS was a flop or only a moderate success, I feel.

By: Lusipurr

Lusipurr — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 01:50:43 +0000

The biggest fear I have about their announcement is that the NX is going to be all about “fun new ways to play”.

Which was the same language they used for the Wii’s motion controls and the Wii U’s tablet controller. It is Nintendo code for “a new gimmick”. That worries me.

By: Mel

Mel — Fri, 20 Mar 2015 20:20:09 +0000

Readers, give Java some accolades, he had to type this whole thing with only the aid of two chop-sticks held between his teeth!

Anyway, I’ve about as much confidence that Nintendo will cock this up as I do they’ll drop out of this partnership prematurely. Some seem to be interested in what Nintendo will make or (curiously) the amount of money they stand to make from supporting mobile platforms, but it’s always been true that Nintendo creates software from their ideas for hardware. A lot remains to be seen, and I’m not particularly interested in any of it.

I do think there’s a slim chance Nintendo can flourish with this opportunity and use it as a cash flow to fund more traditional console efforts. That’s what they’d have us believe, anyway. But last time Nintendo spoke of supporting a new device while maintaining support for an old one, we got the DS and lost the GBA. They were clear on their messaging of the DS as a “third pillar”, and it just wasn’t their intent at all. A worrisome precedent that might not necessarily apply here, but still… ugh.

I’m not going to get too caught up in it until I see a clearer picture of what Nintendo actually IS doing, and not what they or DeNA say they’ll do.