- Now they know how it feels, says Shigeru Miyamoto
Roughly two weeks ago, animal rights movement PETA released Pokémon Black and Blue, a parody and critique of Nintendo’s Pokémon universe. Now, Nintendo has finally addressed the issue in their latest episode of Nintendo Direct. During the fairly short presentation, Shigeru Miyamoto appeared to announce PETA World – a game based on the animal rights movement.
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Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
"Despite some early successes for Xbox games on rival platforms, Xbox hardware is down by a massive 31 percent this quarter."
"Without Activision Blizzard, Microsoft’s overall gaming revenue would have actually declined this quarter."
"Xbox content and services would have only been up a single percent without Activision Blizzard..."
"It looks like next quarter is going to be a similar story for gaming at Microsoft, too."
That is crazy... so A/B/K is carrying the whole Xbox gaming.
Oh and Microsoft will be fine. Windows, Office and Cloud are growing with each pc purchase.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
After being benched for 20 years, and returning only to be forsaken again despite being a splendid game, it's time Kid Icarus gets salvation.
In fairness, what message does capturing (what are essentially) animals and making them fight other animals as well as making them do your bidding, send out to kids?
Not to mention that the world of Pokemon is so mindlessly divorced from any political issue whatsoever, which makes the actual central concept seem less sinister. However, it's sinister in itself that the game is so simplistic.
I know it's all about companionship and granted the latest games in the series have touched on the philosophical a bit, but all the same, it's a series that needs to not be so simple. You can communicate complex issues to children through simple means, which is something Pokemon by and large chooses not to do. Many works of children's literature are subjected to scholarly study for just that reason - they have a kind of depth to them that perhaps registers in children's minds on more subconscious or subliminal levels.
Pokemon is not something I'd want any kid of mine to grow up watching, at least not obsessively. I'm pretty sure he or she would turn out to be a drooling moron.
I hope Nintendo puts this down, I bet it's a trademark violation to put Pokemon in there.
I am all up for animal rights, but I don't over protect them, this is overprotection!
When I see in the movies or in a game a guy getting tortured or killed I don't rush out and do the same, or when I see a guy fighting in the arena as a slave, I don't rush out and find a person to enslave and build myself an arena, fantasy and real life are completelly appart.
I believe animals should be protected when it is the right time and place to do so, Pokemon is a franchise that despite encoraging fights and whatsoever, encorages a bound with your pocket monster, and I believe that most people grown up to have better bounds with animal because of such childhood.