2011 might have been a bust, but Nintendo's Satoru Iwata has hopes for a bright future.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/28255
Nintendo's looking to make new genres of video games next year, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata proclaimed after apologizing to investors at today's Financial Results Briefing for missing the financial forecast for the first half of the fiscal year.
The goal of these new genres, according to Iwata, is to attract people who are not interested in video games. "[We] will aim to develop and launch products that can provide meaningful surprises to the public," he said. He believes they have an advantage because of their ability to integrate hardware and software ideas, and their previous success in a wide variety of demographics.
Nintendo wants to make sure the 3DS has its fair share of long-tail, evergreen games, much likes it predeccesor. The DS had Nintendogs, New Super Mario Bros., and Mario Kart DS sell millions of units over a long period of time. Nintendo hopes Nintendogs + Cats, Super Mario 3D Land, and Mario Kart 7 can function in the same manner.
While Nintendogs + Cats was released in the first half of the year, other big releases were delayed, causing sales to slip. Additionally, the company couldn't make last year's hits sell well enough into 2011.
Iwata also discussed how he wants to leverage social media more, citing last week's Nintendo Direct as a good first step. He wants to separate the investor briefings from the consumer-focused announcements.
We just want games. Stop over thinking it Iwata. Give us games.
The goal of these new genres, according to Iwata, is to attract people who are not interested in video games.
QuoteThe goal of these new genres, according to Iwata, is to attract people who are not interested in video games.
ARRRRRGGGGHHHH!!!!!!
So the same non-gamer bullshit as before? That's the goal? You guys didn't do that enough with the Wii?
How about you get the people that ARE interested in games for a change since you scared every fuckin' one of them off with the Wii? You guys talked about trying to get core gamers back and now you're talking about non-gamers again.
It wouldn't be so bad if Nintendo was going to do a two pronged approach and do that casual bullshit with one hand and then the stuff everyone else wants with the other, but I don't think that's going to be the case at all. More likely than not Nintendo is going to do with the Wii U exactly what they did with the Wii, which is the only new IPs will be casual crapware and then they will pump out the obligatory Mario, Metroid, and Zelda sequels and expect that the Core crowd is going to be kept satisfied with that and nothing else.
I'm less interested in Nintendo creating "new genres" (which I think is just a Nintendo buzz phrase right now) than them creating new franchises. I'm sick of the constant parade of Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Metroid, etc. Please, Nintendo...Pikmin was the last new "core" franchise Nintendo made, and it was practically a GameCube launch title.
That's what the big 3rd party push is for Ian.
all the games you whine and complain about not getting.
...These are just Wii games published by Nintendo Only (Like MH Tri was published in some regions by Nintendo. Didn't make the list.) I also considered anything fairly Niche to not be Casual by definition. Fill free to put in corrections I haven't actually played most of these but I've probably read about them.
Why do people swear that Nintendo has ONLY made casual games for the last 5 years?
I'm sure if someone put out a list and broke it into 2 categories, you would see that Nintendo's output has been very similar to previous generations and for the most part pretty close to evenly split between casual and core games.
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Are Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc. etc. not core enough?
Battalion Wars could be Nintendo's answer to COD if it were made into an FPS.No
To clarify on that I rather see Metroid turned into an FPS.Battalion Wars could be Nintendo's answer to COD if it were made into an FPS.No
Battalion Wars could be Nintendo's answer to COD if it were made into an FPS.
Sometimes he strikes gold with things like Pikmin, and sometimes he gets flops like Wii Music,The funny part of this statement is that Wii Music outsold Pikmin and Pikmin 2... combined.
Sometimes he strikes gold with things like Pikmin, and sometimes he gets flops like Wii Music,The funny part of this statement is that Wii Music outsold Pikmin and Pikmin 2... combined.
