| Joelcool7 said: Iwata didn't specifically say Apple, he said 99cent smart phone games. Iwata states that the cheap smart phone games are destroying the industry and are unsustainable. I don't need to check Google I followed the keynote.See my OP below, you'll see I never said anything false. You made that up completely, Iwata has directly said that 99cent cell phone games are the biggest threat to the industry. He was obviously refering to iOS software and that was what was widely reported and everyone agreed that it was what he was getting at. Reggie "Angry Birds is a great piece of experience, but that is one compared to thousands of other pieces of content that for one or two dollars I think actually create a mentality for the consumer that a piece of gaming content should only be two dollars. |
I watched that keynote live, and then I saw the gaming media spin it into something it wasn't. Iwata didn't attack cheap smartphone games in general as was reported, he attacked poor quality cheap smartphone games, which is why he cited Angry Birds as something being done correctly.
He talked about needing to create the next must have experience, which is where he cited the likes of Nintendo's own Mario, or third party franchises like COD, Guitar Hero and Angry Birds, and that you most likely won't create the next must have piece of content on any platform if it's of poor quality. Content is king, he said.
When I go on the app store and I see stupid sound apps alongside the app stores better games in the top 25 (as of right now, there's a £1.49 app like that just outside the top 15), or I see things like 'Hair Plucker' or until recently, 'Milk the Cow' near the top of the free chart, then I understand exactly what he's talking about. No matter how well other developers are doing by creating good successful games, their efforts are undermined by people creating utter crap like that alongside them, and it's those kind of things he's refering to when he talks about devaluing the market.
It gets more hits to say he's attacking every single smartphone game in existence though.
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