Given his audience, one of the main aspects of the talk was what it takes to break into the industry. After mentioning how nearly impossible it is for a small, rookie development house to compete with the multimillion dollar budgets being used in retail games, he moved on to the potential for online publishing. After alluding to the difficulty of getting a game onto Xbox Live Arcade, due to Microsoft's vigorous approval process, he expressed his excitement in Nintendo's WiiWare service. As Nintendo stated with their original (and only) announcement of the service, he stated that it would launch early next year and emphasized how open Nintendo was being with development kits and what they were going to allow on the service. He seemed convinced that this was going to be a gateway for many independent developers operating on small budgets. Given that Nintendo has been incredibly quiet about this since the original announcement, it's interesting to hear the points restated by a third party.
That wasn't all of the Nintendo talk. When talking about current projects, he expressed his excitement about this month's launch of the Wii version of Guitar Hero III, which his team worked on. He said he really enjoyed working with the combination of the guitar peripheral and the Wii remote that plugs into it. The presentation ended with him showing the trailer for Wii Fit from E3. He talked about just how much the industry was changing and mentioned games like Brain Age in connection with the trailer as evidence of that.
Vicarious Visions is one of Activision's key developers. Hearing Mr. Bala's enthusiasm for Nintendo's platforms should mean continued Nintendo support going forward.
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...he stated that it would launch early next year and emphasized how open Nintendo was being with development kits and what they were going to allow on the service. He seemed convinced that this was going to be a gateway for many independent developers operating on small budgets.
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Originally posted by: sirfire
1/ Who would not have a warehouse in a country like Australia with no Wii controllers anywhere in stock after Christmas?
When i was a Bottle shop manager my area supervisor would say you will be fired if you ran out of Beer on Christmas and New Years day would you expect that accountability would apply to the CEO in Australia if your business is built around Christmas and its marketing?
2/ Why wouldn’t you have a 1300 (freecall) Number when HP and IBM and many many others do to support your customers?
4/ Why do you not have staff willing to accept that its Nintendo’s fault for not having stock prior and after Christmas?
5/ Who would be a shareholder of a company that has NO stock Anywhere in a major country during the busiest time of the year?
Even though Microsoft have flaws at least XBox 360 Controllers and many other components in stock in every place we went to.
Should Satoru Iwata be accountable of bad business practices such lack of hindsight and foresight to have an oversupply when ALL other major companies BEST practices is to be oversupplied?
