If you want to be a successful entrepreneur in games then “don’t be a pussy.” So says Neil Young, CEO and founder of Ngmoco, quoting advise given to him prior to founding the mobile games company.
Young, speaking at the Game Developer’s Conference 2011, was offering insight into lessons he has learned in the two and a half years since Ngmoco launched. The company was bought for a reported $400 million in October 2010 by the Japanese firm DeNA.
The advice was given to Young by 68-year-old serial entrepreneur George Stevenson, father of Bob Stevenson, co-founder of Ngmoco.
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At a showcase event in San Francisco this week, when asked if he views Nintendo as a competitor, Ngmoco CEO Neil Young had to pause and think.
The Nintendo market is like the Disney market. It's never going away. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a fool.
Disney went crap though.
Just saying lol not trolling or saying that's what will happen to Nintendo.
Disney owns Marvel, you know, the company that just had one of the largest movies of all time. The Avengers.
Nintendo isn't even the company in the worst situation right now. I remember all the hate and doubt when the Wii was about to launch. I have a feeling the Wii U, while not as successful, will definitely hit 5 million by the end of the year.
"Disney went crap though."
And they're still making millions/billions.
You both made good points nonetheless.
I didn't know Disney owned Marvel.
An yeah they are still making a ton of cash but I still think their in house movies have lost all the magic of the old classics though.
Can anyone name a good Disney made movie in the last ten years that matches the lion king? or the little mermaid? peter pan? beauty and the beast? sleeping beauty?
This has gone way off topic haha...
They have Pixar making all the animated stuff now, lol. I can't remember the last Walt Disney Animation Studios movie, sadly.
Yeah that's what I meant but I don't think people got what I was trying to say and think I was having a dig at Nintendo lol.
Just remember all these Disney classics as a kid and they just don't seem to make them anymore.
The last Disney animated film was Tangled, the next is Wreck-It Ralph, which is up every gamer's alley.
calling a CEO ( successful guy ) a fool isnt going to make you look smarter
maybe that wont happen to nintendo hopefully
but our world is open to any possibility we arent living in a movie ( where everything is perfect)
sony and microsoft are included here of course
btw disney is in a very positive situation
Someone with a popular app trash talking a household name in gaming?
That's like a JV quarterback saying Drew Brees sucks.
Game consoles have been the staple of the industry ever since the transition away from arcades, but the rise of smartphones and tablets in the past couple years is already having a major impact on how games are sold to people, and the future of consoles is hazy, some would argue. Certainly, Neil Young, CEO of mobile games developer ngmoco, is of the mindset that mobile could represent the future.
In a few years when tablets have the horsepower to really scream and you add in a wireless controller, I could see it happening
Android ice cream just got controller support and the asus transformer prime tablet is quad core. Not yet released though the date will be given in 2 days...hopefully this month or next.
The Asus Transformer looks awesome, I cant believe something like that exsist?! So who says the ps4 is not gonna be a tab again? Ive been saying it for the longest time, it's only a matter of time.
Yeah the transformer is neat but if you're going to buy a tablet it's best just to wait. Everything out now is dual core tegra 2. The tegra 3 quad cores will be rolling out soon starting with the prime probably later this month.
At the AsiaD conference Jonney Shih said that the Transformer Prime would have its official unveiling on the 9th but all the other sources i've read point to the 9th being the actual release date! I hope that's true.
Yes would be very cool if it was released on the 9th. I'd buy it. I'm also considering the kindle fire. It's only dual core but it is also only $199 and hopefully cyanogenmod is in its future.
They already have tablets using wireless or Blue Tooth controllers.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Here someone used a PS3 controller with An Android phone. Then hooked it up to a large screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Currently these are unsupported "hacks but work perfectly. Imagine what will happen when these companies provide full on support...
By late 2011 and early 2012 the first generation of quad core chip-sets from Nvidia and Qualcomm will be on the market. Qualcomm's chips sometime later but running at above 2ghz quad core.
End of 2012 early 2013 the refresh for those chips come out and they will be 3 times as fast. Nvidia and Qualcomm has their chip-set road maps detailing this.
The mobile CPU/GPU technology is moving at an unbelievable rate.
Finally the full details were released! It's coming in December with 32gb for $499. And there's 2 different colors!
http://www.engadget.com/201...
BS. Tablets will not replace console any time soon. You can't put a tablet or phone in your living room and play games with family and friends. As long as that market exists consoles are not going anywhere. Same thing with televisions. You can put all the television shows on every device possible and people still want to by big wide screen televisions to watch their favourite movies on. What are you going to do when you and your family want to watch a movie? Hold up you phone while they look over your shoulder? Prop up the tablet on the coffee table and squint at the screen? Please.
Actually you already can stream games from your iPad onto your 50" tv and play them whilst sat on a sofa. And pretty soon you'll be able to play Arkham city straight from your iPad with a wireless controller in bed or with the iPad plugged into your TV... check out onlive.
Do you have to plug it into an ac outlet to play for a long period? If so wtf is the point? the whole point of a tablet is the portability. If you have to plug it in to ac just to play a game you might as well just get a console or pc.
Also where are all the great games coming from? Content is king and if there are no games worth owning then I will always pass. I may get a tablet for something else though.
I had the same viewpoint as you not to long ago, but the truth is this is the future. These new tablets are comming with HDMI output so you can connect it to your tv & blutooth contorller so you can use your ps3 contorller while playing it on your tv. I dont think ps4/xbox720 will be tablets, but i do belive that the next gen will all be on tablets connected to your tv with everything being digital download nothing physical anymore.
I think the Wii U controller and it's streaming abilities will prove more useful and cost efficient. Tablets are just weak laptops, and laptops are weak desktops. I can't imagine this ever not being the case, streaming is needed for any serious business to be done on a tablet.
Wow, this guy is one fire. First the NGP will be D.O.A. now this? At least I can agree with this one.
What I don't understand is why any one cares what he has to say in regards to NGP. He does not make games for gamers. Not one of his games is made for someone who actually enjoys playing games.
I am sure he made these statements to garner some attention, and it worked. Though the average gamer who is paying attention to the GDC could truly care less about ngmoco and its shovelware. Cliffy-B you are not sir.
Not discounting his business accumen or relevance to the mobile market, I just don't care for his games. I know I can't be alone in this.