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Nintendo's Mobile Games Don't Stand Up To Satoru Iwata's Legacy

Satoru Iwata prized unique games over simply good ones - so why is Nintendo's mobile output not following his vision?

IMissJimRyan1665d ago

Iwata or Yamauchi before him, whatever. In the end they are businessmen. The first one liked games, the second didn't even play them. If mobile games are making money (it seems to me), their legacy is being very well respected and carried on.

AngelicIceDiamond1665d ago

"their legacy is being very well respected and carried on." Clearly we're not talking about the same company here. Mr. Iwata cut half his salary so he could keep his teams a float and more importantly to feed their families by preventing lay offs. Unlike EA and Activision who fire all their workers and CEO's who are vastly over payed. Iwata would be tossing in his grave if he knew what Mario Kart of Mobile has become. That's not his vision at all, in fact hes been purposely avoiding putting his games on Mobile for YEARS and years now because of lb's and MTX. So I dunno what the hell you're talking about. Iwata died 4 years ago and now greedy execs are slowly implementing dirty practices. Nope, new Nintendo is slowly becoming like Acti and EA. Iwata's Legacy is being tarnished.

IMissJimRyan1665d ago

This is just the vision of a fan. As businessmen they seek profit a e only profit. Yamauchi changed Nintendo from a card company, to taxis, to dirty motels to games.
IF being family friendly and loving games was the niche that made money for them, great. But if they found another way to make more money, they absolutelly will change and embrace. This is the Yamauchi legacy, and Iwatas at some extent.

All the fanmade speech is just that, fanmade.

EddieNX 1665d ago

Judge Nintendo on their proper console games. The ones coming out on Switch are some of the best games Nintendo has ever made.

I think Nintendo views mobile gaming as a very easy way to.make.tons of money even with games way below their console standard.

IMissJimRyan1665d ago (Edited 1665d ago )

They will do anything that makes money. In the 90s they are against violence and sex on their consoles.
Today they put Doom as a highlight and receive all pedo games from japan.

I can understand people who want to believe that a capitalist company love its product and its clientes. It's a reasonably way to deal with the harsh reality about the world we live in.

But it isnt more than faith. The truth is that Nintendo is changing fast and will keep adapting to keep making more money.

From a family friendly and with high control over games to a open house, one product and mobile game maker. Nintendo is not the same from a long time. Some fans just need to realise.

Tross1665d ago

Nintendo's mobile games don't even stand up to their current console games, but yes, they are an insult to Iwata-San's legacy.

AK911665d ago

Mobile gaming is not the future.

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Make your next GPU upgrade AMD as these latest-gen Radeon cards receive a special promotion

AMD has long been the best value option if you're looking for a new GPU. Now even their latest Radeon RX 7000 series is getting cheaper.

Father__Merrin1d ago

Best for the money is the Arc cards

just_looken23h ago

In the past yes but last gen amd has gotten cheaper and there new cards are on the horizon making 6k even cheaper.

The arc cards are no longer made by intel but asus/asrock has some the next line battlemage is coming out prices tbd.

Do to the longer software development its always best to go amd over intel if its not to much more money even though intel is a strong gpu i own 2/4 card versions.

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PlayStation Doesn't Need a Dedicated PC Store Launcher

With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?

thorstein2d ago

No, and they already solved any need with the overlay that's coming.

Vits2d ago

Unless they are trying to kill their recently created PC business, I would advise against opening a dedicated PC store. It's an extremely hard endeavor, and people, in general, are very comfortable with Steam. Even Epic, with their billions of dollars invested, is still struggling to find a foothold, and they have Fortnite.

just_looken1d 12h ago (Edited 1d 12h ago )

Money is one thing security is another but again millions have 0 knowledge past 2020.

Epic store for years struggled with a shopping cart/account theft/credit card theft

Rockstar launcher/store to this day over 5 years later still has horrific user interface security flaws lost account's and stolen CC

Then you got that activision need phone number oh we lost it launcher

The crown jewel is the ea launcher/store ea app 3 yrs old still has hundreds of threads were people lost games/accounts/game access or just straight up crashes.

Edit" Oh ubi launcher were you buy a game that may or may not be there again or work and the launcher 5yrs old still has no 4K support if you launch it on a 4k screen there is a high chance it will just crash.

ocelot072d ago

Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming.

It's just a known fact. The PC gaming community prefer Steam and Steam alone. They don't like different launchers. I personally don't mind them. But majority just stick with steam. Hence why EA and Ubisoft went back to on releasing on steam and why Microsoft release games on steam as people hated buying from the windows store.

The only other launchers that I imagine are doing ok is GOG due to being drm free and epic games due to the free games every week. Sony shouldn't release any sort of pc launcher n

Nitrowolf22d ago (Edited 2d ago )

It literally says in the OP that PC gamers don't like multiple launchers lol. It even mentions Steam being the go to for gamers

Tacoboto1d 23h ago

Title: "PlayStation Doesn't Need a Dedicated PC Store Launcher"

N4G: "Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming"

When you don't even read the headline...

ocelot071d 20h ago

I read it and had a brain fart. As read the title then this "With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?"

So I hold my hands up on that mistake. Rest of my comment still stands.

Giblet_Head1d 12h ago (Edited 1d 12h ago )

Steam and GOG are highly preferred because of the rich feature set. Ubisoft, Rockstar, EA, Epic etc have all set a precedent over the years for customers to instinctively expect individual publisher launchers to be so extremely half-assed that the majority simply don't want to bother dealing with what is almost an inevitable disappointment by comparison to Steam or GOG. Those publishers and their inaction or general disinterest to improve have effectively ruined any future adoption to be taken seriously.

Einhander19722d ago (Edited 2d ago )

This is just another ridiculous double standard article.

It's like how Microsoft can spend 20 years of making nothing but gaas and live service style games to sell microtransactions, dlc and subscriptions and get praise for doing it, but if Sony wants to make a single game like that every website under the sun is writing articles saying how Sony is anti-consumer or whatever.

derek1d 19h ago

Yep, huge double standard look at the tortured reaction to the ps5pro, websites hyperventilating like Sony is forcing people to buy it.

just_looken1d 12h ago

Wait my xbox from 2004 has avengers gaas on it? wow your so smart

m$ Gaas started with the other companies like sony

Gamepass yes they are deep into that but its still a huge money saver sense you do not own your games then get a service like that.

Now there pc xbox launcher that is trash for years now

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