- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Vella
I stated Nintendo of America because in my opinion, their creativity is at an all time high. While they may not be focusing their ad campaigns on us older gamers, they have the potential to make great games for our demographic. They will have to concede to online play, but as they point out, only 8% of gamers who play online actually pay for the service, and it does cost them a few too many gold coins to keep the servers up and running.
While online may be a great experience, Nintendo is still an old school Japanese business, and they will watch where every penny falls. They will step into the online arena soon enough, but probably to a more social and less hardcore level. As they note of course, most people who play games online prefer to play them on a PC, which is true.
The innovation I'm talking about is some of the software. Anyone ever heard of Animal Crossing? A kids game for sure, but a damn smart
piece of code and creativity.
Well, IMO if Nintendo continues upon the path they are taking right now they won't last long.
Because as much of a great game animal crossing might be, I can tell you the majority of gamers don't play those games.
[Edited on 8/12/2004 6:22:13 PM]