Iwata: "we´re thinking about a new business structure"

[chris_wing]

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

chris_wing said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

And you should look at what the majority of the Indie games are... Hardly any of them are very demanding in hardware... And even with that, look at how hard it is for Nintendo just to make games in HD for the wiiU with their own hardware/OS.. If you have seen any of the Nintendo Directs, at least 3 of them have said that blah game has been delayed cause moving into the HD generation is harder than we thought so "Please Understand"... Now think of how bad that would be for Nintendo on hardware/OS they don't even know how to use...

And there have been worse things called in this site without people being reported so I think that is emotional but that is a valid defensive excuse as well

You learn how to use it, & hire people who are experts with it.  They are going to have to learn a new system at some point anyways, right?These people who know Unity (just an example engine) are flooding the job market at the moment.  Yes Unity games are less demanding then other games, but Nintendo seems very comfortable making less technically impressive games than the competion, so developing for a low common denominator shouldn't be much of an issue.

Oh, I'm on the defence, k

Yea but thats all speculation... For all we know, they will go the same way as Sega did and ruin their main games when trying to adapt to foreign hardware... There have been many first party going into third party before and most of them have went bankrupt... I know that Nintendo has a bigger fanbase than Sega as well as more money but history does say that when first party goes third party, they don't do well... Also, Nintendo does make technically impressive games with limited hardware which is what everyone praises them for... They can push even the weakest hardware to the limits to make both technically and visually impressive games on hardware that shouldnt be able to handle such graphics... Just look at the reviews of Mario Galaxy on the wii

I don't need to read the reviews, I own both Galexy games & they are great, fantastic use of limited technical resources.  Sega was in trouble long before they went third party.  Their software took a dive after the Genisis, long before they started to develop for other companies hardware, not that thier own 32X & Saturn did them any favours in the interim.  Simply going third party doen't mean you are going to end up like Sega or Atari.  Both Sega & Atari were forced to become third party after they burnt all their resources fighting against it.  If Nintendo gracefully accept a new direction they could be bigger than ever.