twilight_link on 03 March 2013
| pokoko said: Lol I see what you did there. Wait. This is serious? Um .. From my perspective, Nintendo needs either a change in leadership or a new management philosophy. If you have only the same people designing games for 20+ years, you're going to lack variety, which is what has happened. You're still going to make great games, that won't have changed, but they will follow established tastes. They need to do more of what they've started to do, which is to mirror what Sony has done with Worldwide Studios, and work with promising and innovative third-party studios on new, exclusive IPs, with the possibility of purchasing that studio if things work out. I think that would be a great way to expand on the appeal of Nintendo consoles. The other option would be to hire new blood, guys from other studios with impressive resumes. We're always hearing about how much money Nintendo has, so that would be the perfect way to use some of it. They could wrap up someone like that and give them their own internal team. However, none of this is rocket science. That's how the rest of the industry works. Honesty, I think the success of the Wii made Nintendo management complacent and perhaps a bit arrogant. They figured they could throw a new twist on the hardware, keep making new versions of the same games, and the audience would still flock. Variety is the spice of gaming, though. They'll keep gamers with tastes that correspond perfectly with what they're doing, but they won't pick up very many new ones. Nintendo, like Microsoft is doing now, could have their pick of the litter with developers. Only time will tell if they really are serious about drawing in new customers. |
"Nintendo needs either a change in leadership or a new management philosophy."
never change successful philosophy
"but they will follow established tastes"
I'm glad they never did this, if they did this and follow established tastes, then the crash of '83 was their end.
"which is to mirror what Sony"
Sony and their creation of new IP is nothing but desperate attempt to find something successful, mirroring Sony is great way to bankruptcy, nothing more or less.
Nintendo succeeded in both as creator of modern video game industry on one hand and as a creator of their own niche, the day they became follower of established tastes or mirror of someone (let alone Sony) is exactly the day of their end.
