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« on: December 09, 2004, 02:54:30 PM »
Nintendo was the first company that after the down fall of the video game industry in the late 70s and 80s in the U.S., revived the video game industry, especially in the U.S. Nintendo provided innovation to the shooter games of the hey-day they included narratives to video games. Nintendo knows that since the video games for most are important to their economy that their going to worry about games that will boost it's economy and not neccessary worry about the U.S. Japan is more likely to invovate games better than say the U.S. because no one has taken the initiative besides Microsoft and even then they are reproducing games that interest predominatly shooters-types. Microsoft is become more like a movie production company producting a certain type of genre game. and even with the recent annoncement by Nintendo entering the animation industry really shows that Nintendo knows exactly what they are doing or at least thinking about the problems are becoming.
Nintendo has always been more interested in the story of video games. And since video games provide a way to tell a story then you always have to challenge yourself to want to develop the way of telling the story. shooter games told one simple story, nintendo provided a longer narrative to games later on....
looking at cinema is a primary example about how narratives have developed. From black-and-white-silent-peep shows to colored-sound-linear novelist narratives. Nintendo is looking to make a video gaming revolution that is likely not to catch on readily in the U.S. at first, but formost in Japan.
It's also very interesting looking at the DS and it's dual screens, it's innovation at it's primative level, but it's doing something more than reproducing the same kind of games that have caught on (action, cough cough) and adding further interactivity into it.
I think a multiple screen video game could be fun, just like peep shows were more preoccupied with a couple of minutes of single use to the cinema of now that is more inclusive. Nintendo want more interaction between actual people, which is also a dissapointment because online video games are taking off; although i don't know if they are as popular in Japan......