Topic: Nintendo Helps Third Parties Learn to Make Games for Everyone

[Kairon]

Developers are reminded to keep it simple if they want to swim in the blue ocean.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=14901

 Historically seen as a very private and secretive company, Nintendo has opened its doors and is helping third party publishers work out the design kinks in casual oriented games they are developing for the Wii and DS.    

One scene that Business Week describes is two Ubisoft executives being invited to Japan to meet about a project that would later become My Word Coach on Wii and DS. There have also been other meetings of minds, like collaborations with Sega and Namco, or a visit to EA's Vancouver Studios by Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata in early 2007.    

Some of the advice that Nintendo's given out for these blue ocean efforts includes less cluttered user interfaces, broader demographics in early focus group testing, and even studying commonplace household appliances like refrigerators and ovens.    

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[that Baby guy]

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[Kairon]

It's a pretty awesome revelation about the extents that Nintendo is going to help out these third party developments. Ubisoft basically completely restarted their My Word Coach project due to Nintendo's advice, and I'm sure that the reason that Golden Phoenix likes Smarty Pants so much is (because she is one) because Nintendo's advice must've affected that game's development too.

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Yay! A fan/stalker!

[Plugabugz]

Kairon has jumped the fence?

ALL HANDS ABANDON SHIP.

[GoldenPhoenix]

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Yay! A fan/stalker!

I take offense at that, I was a stalker LONG before him!

[Djunknown]

Finally, a mainstream outlet that accurately presents A)Gaming and B)Nintendo.

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Wii Fit, which goes on sale in Japan on Dec. 1 and in the U.S. and Europe early next year, to give Nintendo's already stellar profits another boost.

I'm skeptical on this one. No doubt the Japanese will be on this white on rice, but will America follow suit? This isn't a 50 dollar Wii play with a Wiimote that is universally used.

Its good to know that 3rd parties are getting the blue ocean strategy. With enough sales, this will cement casual gaming as permanent audience, as opposed to being a fad.

But how will they measure success? Rival fanboys/biased outlets of gaming media will accuse the Wii of low software ratio. Do casual gamers have to purchase titles at the same rate of hardcore gamers?

[Kairon]

They will measure success by how many coipies of My Word Coach sells. Now get out there and make it happen... because I'm broke. T_T

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Oh god, the "Nintendo Difference" is spreading to THURD PARTIES.

THEY'RE DESTROYING GAMING THRU WITHIN THE LAST PROVIDERS OF TRADITIONAL GAMES