Vice:
Tabata's statement sounds an awful lot like Nintendo cutting off its nose to spite its face. They published a game aimed directly at an audience the company isn't the master of anymore, while simultaneously alienating Chibi-Robo's original and older fans. And as Nintendo moves into 2016, with the launch of its new smartphone titles, and probably a new home-and-handheld hybrid console in the form of the NX, it needs to realise the contemporary needs of younger fans. If it doesn't, it risks losing them further, no matter how many cute games with Mario dressed up as a cat it lines up. Sometimes, pandering to a market backfires.
"We have no intention of expanding" - Miyamoto
Feels like a missed opportunity, since Nintendo is loved all around the world, a museum in USA / CAN / UK / AUS / etc. would always be packed with fans.
Kyoto is already overrun by tourists as it is. It would probably make sense if Japan finds a way to spread tourism out over more locations instead of just the Kansai region (Osaka, Kyoto) and Tokyo, to both alleviate the burden of tourism on those two area, while bringing more interest and thus tourism money to other areas.
Of course, that’s not something Nintendo needs to concern itself with right now, and it makes sense that they stick with 1 museum for the time-being, and in their home-city of Kyoto.
I’m also not sure how big the appeal for a Nintendo museum would be elsewhere in the world. Many tourists flock to Japan BECAUSE of the (pop-) culture, so they are interested in anime, videogames, etc. So Pokemon Centers and Nintendo Stores are very popular, always bustling with tourists who spend a lot of money there, and obviously a Nintendo museum in Kyoto then makes perfect sense.
But generally speaking, folks don’t visit a Paris or New York for it’s pop-culture, so a Nintendo museum would make less sense. Not saying a video-games museum wouldn’t/couldn’t work, I believe it could, but I think in the west it would make more sense to open a museum with a broader spectrum of videogame-exhibits, so not ‘just’ a Nintendo museum, but something much wider in terms of scope …
Tracer used AI to serve takedowns "on behalf of Nintendo".
Nintendo's new 'wireless device' patent suggests it tracks movement. Could it be a precursor for VR?
The prospect of having a proper Nintendo VR is exciting.
I'd die for another Astrobot on PSVR2, as the Rescue Mission on PSVR1 was incredible. Sony showed how amazing platformers can be in VR, and I have no doubt Nintendo could do some equally amazing things IF they were to embrace the platform.
"Nintendo Fans Are Growing Up"
They have this problem since the eighties though. And thats one of the reasons why less and less people like and buy Nintendo consoles and games.
To be honest though, there is absolutely nothing wrong with their games, I bought a Wii U as a gaming alternative that offers me something a little bit different and I haven't been disappointed. Their games have a certain imaginative charm that you just can't get anywhere else.
The problem lays in their image. Just walking into a GAME shop in the UK and the Nintendo section looks like something out of a toy store. When my mum saw my Wii U she asked me what it was and when I told her she looked at my funny and I quote "Aren't you a little old for that?"
It could cost them? Its already costing them
Nintendo's about games that focus on the gamer's experience level, rather than the maturity of obscenely graphic gaming content. Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze may look aesthetically cartoony, though its difficulty invokes itself into a mature scenario because of its skill-based platforming (Wonderful 101 also's stigmatized in this way).
The NX will hopefully remedy Nintendo from their current state of mind.