During a financial results briefing, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata touched briefly upon the company’s partnership with smartphone game maker DeNA. As previously reported, Nintendo and DeNA will collaborate to produce .titles based on Nintendo I.P. for smartphones.
“Regarding the number of the titles, you may want to know that we will release approximately five titles by the end of the next fiscal year, which is the end of March 2017,” Iwata said to investors and analysts.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
5 games over a 2 year stretch fits what I have said in the past: this feels more like "dabbling in mobile" than going fully into it.
The fact that console games won't be made for phones ( I.E. no NES Mario or Pokemon Red/Blue/Whatever) only reinforces this.
Not that I'm complaining, since it means their past statements about not abandoning consoles are all the more true and firm.
This will make them a lot of money, lets hope it doesnt divert focus away from their real game development. Even though Iwata is not a good president in many ways, his history as a game developer is largely the reason they have avoided mobile for so long. And for us gamers, this was a good decision.
Now we've gone from "no mobile plans, it will devalue our brand" to "making apps to promote our software" to "leasing out characters to mobile studios to promote our software" to having the Mario Kart producer working on mobile games and promising a ton of effort and having at least 5 mobile games in the pipeline. That's a big jump.
An open question to Nintendo console owners/fans:
Do you wish Nintendo is VERY successful in their mobile effort, hope they are moderately successful in their mobile effort or hope they get discouraged with mobile and leave?
Getting into the mobile market is a double edged sword IMO- if they are successful then there will be a ton of pressure on Iwata/Nintendo to put more and more resources toward mobile and less and less toward dedicated gaming devices (unless of course their next home and handheld consoles become very successful and profitable themselves
It is very interesting they are only doing 5 games for mobile over the next 2 years- that tells me they are putting serious resources in these individual games-
If I am an investor in Nintendo I would def want to see them be very successful in Mobile- if I am a longtime fan of Nintendo consoles- I m not so sure I want to see them do too well- they are already stretched too thin trying to provide enough content for home and handheld consoles and honestly not delivering enough for the Wii U to be successful- add a 3rd platform for Nintendo to provide content for and they will be hard pressed to deliver enough for all 3 platforms-
It would sure make things easier for Nintendo and Nintendo fans/console owners if they would comit to getting hardy levels of 3rd party support for both home and handheld consoles next gen
Ninty is desperate
Only 5? While that ensures quality, it eliminates the chance for innovations. They will stick to sure things instead of reviving old franchises or testing ne IP, new genres and styles. We could see them do Hotel Dusk, Golden Sun, Earthbound or something if they had the balls. Now I think we will see a Runner style Mario game, predictable and good. I am content but with deep sadness for the missed opportunity and potential...