milkyjoe said:
Not true, although the wild spinning of whatever anybody says never helps. For example, Iwata talks about 'content is king' in smartphone games (and in games in general), and cites Angry Birds as an example of a smartphone game done right. Then follows hundreds of stories where it's suggested that Iwata is dismissing all smartphone games, including Angry Birds, as throwaway nonsense, and then you get anti-Nintendo types heralding Angry Birds as their champion in defeating Nintendo, thus entirely missing the point of what Iwata said in the first place... Thus proving that it's never what you say but how people report on what you say that matters, and I imagine (or rather I hope) that in this instance with Sony, what they actually said was probably slightly more tame than the initial story suggested, but then tame doesn't get hits... |
as far as i remember nintendo said something about smartphone developers filling the industry with low quality cheap games and that causes harm because he believes that they steal attention from what he percieves to be higher quality games produced for dedicated gaming devices... and personally i find that no less offensive its technically the same thing downplaying your competitor and then saying that the product you produce has a higher value
