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Furukawa on what he'll be prioritizing as Nintendo president; "new and innovative content"

Assuming he’s approved in a couple of months from now, Shuntaro Furukawa will be promoted to president of Nintendo. He’ll be taking over for Tatsumi Kimishima, the current president. At Nintendo’s financial results briefing last week, Furukawa was asked about his goals at the company.

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Nebaku2201d ago

Nice that the old timers are stepping out of the way for this young 50 year old upstart.

Moonman2201d ago

He's only 46. Can't wait to see how he leads. :)

Zeldafan642201d ago

Since he's fluent in english I hope to see him in Nintendo directs going forward.

deafdani2201d ago

Yeah, he's not even started yet and he's already very heavily implied he will focus on microtransactions and GaaS, and he's already stated one of his main focus will be in the mobile market.

As far as I'm concerned, he's not given me a good first impression at all. If having new blood means Nintendo entering the fray of customer-fucking practices, then I'd rather they keep the old blood. I hope I'm dead wrong.

MisterManGuy2200d ago

Your misinterpreting what he's saying. He said Nintendo isn't doing as much as they could in the mobile and GaaS areas. Whether you like GaaS or not, it's not an inherently bad practice. Nintendo can make a ton of money in that space without having to resort to aggressive loot box tactics, especially since their games have long shelf lives and retain their original price for years.

Same with mobile. They're not changing their focus away from the Switch, they just want to get mobile to stand more on its own. As the 3DS wanes, making smartphone games a major revenue pillar will be very important to Nintendo, so they need to step up their mobile offerings more.

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Xbox No Longer Has Its Head In The Game

Microsoft & Xbox have shut down Arkane Austin and Tango Gameworks to lay off more workers, insinuating that they're not in the game anymore.

XiNatsuDragnel23h ago

They're headless for a long time because closing tango isn't exactly a good move

PapaBop1h ago

Ever since that cringe Kinect reveal they've never been the same. They used to make some amazing games and do great deals with third parties Early on in the 360 era they had games like Chromehounds and Shadowrun, both well ahead of their time. Now instead of nurturing their studios, they'd rather gaslight gamers and throw billions on pre existing studios. Not sure how Spencer is still in a job, I wouldn't trust him to organise a piss-up in a brewery.

Father__Merrin1h ago

We've said all along Spencer needs to go. I wish xbox went back to xbox only with new gears fable forza halo releases lots of third party releases

Those early rainbow 6 Vegas days and phantasy star universe are gone forever

1Victor18h ago

“Acquisitions always come with cuts”

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Tacoboto18h ago

Especially for Microsoft, when Booty pretty much said they didn't know how to handle that many studios.

Why even make the acquisition then.

-Foxtrot17h ago

Didn’t they make the swipe for Bethesda when Sony wanted like 6 months exclusiveness for Starfield

It’s like…chill, you got Rise of the Tomb Raider for a year.

romulus2317h ago

Do they always come with senseless cuts becasue that's exactly what cutting Tango was, senseless.

H918h ago

Everyone's acting now that game companies care about games and Xbox is committing the Ultimate betrayal, they are all like this and you have just been quiet about it for far too long

Nuclearmoon17h ago

I wonder if Microsoft do pull out of the console market that it might open the door for valve to relaunch the Steambox. Competition is good for the industry but Microsoft don't even seem to be trying anymore.

UltimateOwnage14h ago

Steam / Valve are one of the few truly pro-consumer bright spots in gaming right now. Thankfully.

jwillj2k416h ago(Edited 16h ago)

“Your game has won some pretty significant awards and is a show piece for where we want to go in the future.”

1 hour later.

“We’re gonna have to let you go. You can’t cover our 100 billion dollar acquisition. Oh and take your awards too 👍🏾”

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Former Dragon Age lead writer David Gaider pours scorn on EA's AI dreams.

"They want you to believe the devs under them are super stoked to work generative AI into their processes," continued Gaider, "but I assure you what they took as excitement was really a veiled wail of despair not unlike the time that team was informed of their new 'really cool' live service mandate.".

LordoftheCritics1d 16h ago

Publishers see gaming as another stock market.

isarai1d 15h ago

I think anyone with some common sense knew this, im glad i don't support their games anymore, what a sh!t company.

Psychonaut851d ago

Friends don’t let friends buy EA or Ubisoft.

Chocoburger23h ago

I said this yesterday. AI isn't what we want when it comes to crafting artistry. Alas, these soulless corporate morons don't care about their work, only about cutting corners as much as possible.

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Modder Uses Raspberry Pi To Create "Game Gear Classic Edition"

One modder produced an unofficial, modern-day take on the Game Gear.

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