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Entertainment / Iwata admits Nintendo's E3 sucked (for core gamers)

« on: July 22, 2008, 10:01:23 pm »

Responding to criticism that the Nintendo's E3 showings lacked a major first-party Wii title aimed at the hardcore gamer, president Satoru Iwata has apologized to those who felt betrayed.

"We are sorry about [the E3] media briefings, specifically for those who were expecting to see Nintendo show something about Super Mario or Legend of Zelda," Nintendo president Satoru Iwata told Forbes.

During Nintendo's recent E3 press conference, the company appeared to focus on casual-oriented titles, such as Animal Crossing: City Folk and Wii Sports Resort, and quickly glossed over major hardcore announcements, such as Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars on DS and word that the teams for Mario and Zelda were working on new, unspecified titles.

"If there is any perception that Nintendo is ignoring the core gamers, it's a misunderstanding and we really want to get rid of that misunderstanding by any means," he continued. "The so-called big titles need a long, long development period...we really didn't think this year's E3 media briefing was the time to do so."

One of the biggest E3 revelations for hardcore Nintendo fans, news that a new Pikmin game is in the works, came about as a unplanned response to a question from former Shacknews editor Chris Remo.

"I think we're addressing both [hardcore and casual gamers]," marking VP Cammie Dunaway informed Wired, expressing hope that third-party games like Call of Duty: World at War would be enough to sate the desires of hardcore gamers.

"We don't talk about stuff until we've got a great degree of confidence that we're close enough to release it."

The marketing VP confirmed that "the extent" of the Wii's remaining 2008 lineup had been detailed at E3, and also mentioned that despite her announcement of Grand Theft Auto on DS, she had not yet seen the title.

As for a solution to increase the Wii's 512 MB of internal memory, which is used to store downloaded content and has been chastised by developers as limiting the system's potential, Dunaway noted that Nintendo did not yet have a solution to announce, but suggested deleting old, infrequently used content.

Lastly, she expressed her belief that the recently unveiled Wii MotionPlus controller add-on, which increases the precision of the Wii's motion detection capabilities, is likely to "very rapidly" spawn sequels of current and upcoming Wii titles, "because it is a heck of a lot of fun."

Source

Awesome, yes? Many of you will say "I expected this", but didn't just about everyone say that Nintendo abandoned us?

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Other Discussion / Re: Do you use a password to login to your home computer?

« on: July 22, 2008, 08:34:40 pm »

I use a password for my user, yes. Though it is very close to the password I use on ZFGC, so I won't even hint of it. :>

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Other Discussion / Re: The term "girl gamer" is horribly stupid.

« on: July 21, 2008, 10:35:35 pm »

It's called "women's football". Why can't we call them girl gamers?

Women's Football is a totally different league, consisting of just WOMEN.

Girl Gamers on the other hand, are part of the same "league" therefore "Gamers".

The original argument, as I understood it, was that calling them "girl gamers" was not appropriate because they aren't an alcove or a distinctive "part" of a group of people. The term "gamer" is pretty much standarized as a male, and so are also football players. It's just the same thing. Shouldn't we change both expressions instead of just one?

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Other Discussion / Re: Creepy Youtube Video

« on: July 21, 2008, 10:32:39 pm »

The changes are fascinating, but in no way creepy.

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Other Discussion / Re: Fear me Kleaver and Hyrule_Boy

« on: July 21, 2008, 10:25:18 pm »

I bet Mammy will be at 10,000 in a month or two anyway.

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Other Discussion / Re: The term "girl gamer" is horribly stupid.

« on: July 21, 2008, 10:24:15 pm »

It's called "women's football". Why can't we call them girl gamers?

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Entertainment / Kingdom of Loathing

« on: July 21, 2008, 10:22:59 pm »

Why aren't you playing already?

http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/

Read the "What is KoL?" tab on the main page to see what the game is about. I might add that Kingdom of Loathing is probably the only game that can give me a good laugh every now and then.

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Entertainment / Re: ITT: Nintendo Sucking Balls

« on: July 21, 2008, 08:49:36 pm »

I'm betting Leipzig or E! for all.

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Entertainment / Re: Banjo-Kazooie on XBLA!

« on: July 20, 2008, 11:41:49 pm »

Doesn't Nintendo have a say in this too? I mean, they published both games.

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Entertainment / Re: Favorite song in anime?

« on: July 20, 2008, 11:30:31 am »

Pokémon theme.

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Contests / Re: Contest #6: Game Development 2 - Comparison REGISTRATION CLOSED

« on: July 20, 2008, 12:03:08 am »

Infinitus won; trust me on this one

D: his remake kicks some hardcore ass right now

Admin bias. NO MORE.

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Entertainment / Re: Shiggy's excuse for why their E3 showing sucked so much.

« on: July 18, 2008, 10:18:11 am »

sorry I didn't know I needed a backstory to post on a forum

You don't, but you need some common sense.

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Entertainment / Re: Shiggy's excuse for why their E3 showing sucked so much.

« on: July 17, 2008, 11:27:31 pm »

This only goes to show that Nintendo was the bigger man. Again.

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Entertainment / KotoR Online

« on: July 17, 2008, 11:25:57 pm »

http://kotaku.com/5026492/yep-next-kotor-is-mmo

As EA confirmed today, the next Knights of the Old Republic is going to be a MMO. From Portfolio.com:

    "We've got two of the most compelling MMOs in the industry in development," said Riccitiello. The first title, based on the Warhammer property, will launch soon. "And the one that people are dying for us to talk to them about — in partnership with Lucas, coming out of BioWare, which is, I think, quite possibly the most anticipated game, full stop, for the industry at the point when we get closer to telling you about it."

    Does Riccitiello mean the oft rumored Knights of the Old Republic Online? "Yes," he said.

Watch out World of Warcraft, you just might have some serious competition here.

Many were probably suspecting this, but it's finally confirmed. Flip or flop?

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Entertainment / Re: ITT: Nintendo Sucking Balls

« on: July 16, 2008, 09:34:59 pm »

Yeah, boo for not giving the hardcore gamers exactly what they want. Wake up guys, Nintendo is evolving, and this is no time to press B.

Yeah, you know !@#$% over part of your audience just to reach the easily !@#$% amused. Excellent tactic. !@#$% hell they could atleast make an attempt to attract as many audiences as possible instead of just fixing on one. Instead of releasing the end result of Iwata cumming in a bucket of money.

Since when is this all about you? Many (hardcore) gamers seem to think that when a game company releases a game for casuals, or switching focus to them for just a bit, it's all part of a grand plan to screw the gamers over. Are you too afraid to see the big picture because you might not be getting your annual Zelda?

If you actually watched the conference, you would have understood that casual gamers are a growing force, and it also needs feeding. You can't have the cake for your own anymore. Boo Nintendo for evolving the whole franchise, boo for caring about something else than YOU for a second.

First of all, don't make this personal. Okay? It will save a !@#$% load of personal attacks being frown about, and dont for a second think I give a !@#$% about my modmanship and this user account, because I couldn't give too fucks anymore. I never made a personal advance against you, so why would you start it? This isn't about 'ME' this is about every !@#$% hardcore gamer out there. They all feel !@#$% over and left out because of Nintendo and its true Nintendo is doing it. And just because Casual gaming may be on a rise doesn't mean they can block out hardcore gamers. Thats like starving all the people without problems with getting food just to feed the ones with problems getting it. A bit drastic but that should help you see it from my point of view.

ALSO: I only ever liked one Zelda, OoT well and perhaps WW. But I couldn't give a toss about the next Zelda game. Its the same damn thing over and over. Yawn.

It seems like you wanted to interpret my "you" as if it was aimed towards you as one person. In fact I meant "you" as in all hardcore gamers. It seems that you were seeking this argument, and I can't figure out why. Anyway.

Nintendo has never focused on casual gamers until now. It has all been aimed towards the "real" gamers for over 20 years. When Nintendo actually does anything about it, everybody starts to cry. And I don't see why they do. Sure, Nintendo didn't present any new secret projects aimed towards "real" gamers for this E3. How do you know they just aren't holding in on them?

I loathe the term "hardcore" and "casual"... They're made up terms to try to split and categorize gamers, when people should just play games they enjoy and deal with it.

Although, I greatly GREATLY disagree with the statement that they're "evolving the whole franchise"... They changed their demographic; it's not evolving gaming at all. Nintendo has shifted their market to that "untapped demographic of people who don't normally play games", and ditched people who grew up with their consoles throughout the early 90s. Reality check, it's a cash in. They've found a way to get non-gamers money for the gamer market.

WiiMusic doesn't appeal to me. I have real instruments to play that don't rely on the inaccuracies of the wiimote.




Also much like Bert said-

Attacking Nintendo =/= an attack against YOU. So please don't take it as such.

How is switching from gamepads to motion sensor controls not evolving?
How is using touch screens to control games not evolving?
How is reaching out to the people who has never played a game before not evolving?
How is laying the focus on creative ideas and good gameplay rather than spotless graphics not evolving?

If you can answer these questions satisfyingly, I will rest my case.

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Entertainment / Re: ITT: Nintendo Sucking Balls

« on: July 16, 2008, 09:19:33 pm »

I've never seen so much !@#$% whining in my entire life. Wii Music looks cool, and all of you know it. Cry more about the fact that you have to wait a little longer for Zelda. Please, cry more.

You hit the spot.

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Entertainment / Re: ITT: Nintendo Sucking Balls

« on: July 16, 2008, 09:08:57 pm »

Yeah, boo for not giving the hardcore gamers exactly what they want. Wake up guys, Nintendo is evolving, and this is no time to press B.

Yeah, you know !@#$% over part of your audience just to reach the easily !@#$% amused. Excellent tactic. !@#$% hell they could atleast make an attempt to attract as many audiences as possible instead of just fixing on one. Instead of releasing the end result of Iwata cumming in a bucket of money.

Since when is this all about you? Many (hardcore) gamers seem to think that when a game company releases a game for casuals, or switching focus to them for just a bit, it's all part of a grand plan to screw the gamers over. Are you too afraid to see the big picture because you might not be getting your annual Zelda?

If you actually watched the conference, you would have understood that casual gamers are a growing force, and it also needs feeding. You can't have the cake for your own anymore. Boo Nintendo for evolving the whole franchise, boo for caring about something else than YOU for a second.

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Entertainment / Re: ITT: Nintendo Sucking Balls

« on: July 16, 2008, 07:50:26 pm »

Yeah, boo for not giving the hardcore gamers exactly what they want. Wake up guys, Nintendo is evolving, and this is no time to press B.

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Entertainment / Re: EVERDAY LIFE OF FOX

« on: July 10, 2008, 03:04:13 pm »

The main character in Fox's reminds me of DJ. D:

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Entertainment / Re: Brawl: Addictive/10

« on: June 29, 2008, 09:38:18 pm »

Melee is just a glitch-fest and I got bored of the multiplayer once Brawl was getting closer.

I dare you to mention any even close to game-breaking glitch other than wavedashing. (and Fox's !@#$% up hitboxes)