sabre2922
10-02-2005, 05:17 AM
Are real gamers second best to Nintendo?
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Satoru Iwata did an interview with G4TV, and in it he says somethings that are at a Scientology level of craziness. I have watched the interview and transcribed the craziest answer answer of them all.
“If you’re just going to compare the spec sheet, or spec number, to the high number that the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 have, it will not be as high. But the matter is if people are going connect our machine and their machine to the ordinary TV at home, I really don’t think they’ll be able to tell such a large difference between them. Nintendo has been eager to expand it’s gaming population and in order to do so we have to invite people who are not currently playing video games at all. And yes, so in the challenge, if we are simply going to say look, we have better graphics, I really don’t think they’ll be intrigued. That’s so, especially if they’re not interesting video games. So to them, the comparison doesn’t make any difference to them. It doesn’t affect their judgement to buy or not video games at all. Rather, in order to invite them to the world we’re getting, we have to say this is something for you, this is interesting for you. Sort of why don’t you touch it and if you touch it I’m sure you’re going to love it. That kind of message is more important than saying it’s beautiful graphics, simply that. And for most avid gamers players who are eager to purchase the PS3 or Xbox 360 we don’t care… we believe they are waiting to participate as well. They are different machines and after all, Revolution is far from… Revolution can give an experience which is quite different from even the experience of of Xbox 360 or PS3. So I think what we are trying to do is that make Revolution so that it makes sense for them to buy both if they are waiting to purchase PS3 or Xbox 360, and in the end what we really want to do is… Our Revolution machine is to be held and appreciated by so many people who love to play with Xbox 360 or PS3.”
Nintendo is abandoning the gamer. You don’t believe me watch interview. It’s clearly the tone they’re taking. They are specifically going after the non-gamer. That to them that is the untapped market.
He says as plainly as can be that graphics don’t matter because the non-gamer is not interested in better graphics. The controller is design specifically for non-gamers. Nintendo’s best selling games recently (Nintendogs, Excercises For Your Brain, etc) are all non-games. See a pattern here? Iwata even goes as far as to speak of the Revolution and the PS3/360 as two seperate systems targetted at two different people. He acknowledges that “avid gamers” are waiting for the PS3/360, but thinks that they want to play the Revolution as well.
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:hmm:
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Satoru Iwata did an interview with G4TV, and in it he says somethings that are at a Scientology level of craziness. I have watched the interview and transcribed the craziest answer answer of them all.
“If you’re just going to compare the spec sheet, or spec number, to the high number that the Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 have, it will not be as high. But the matter is if people are going connect our machine and their machine to the ordinary TV at home, I really don’t think they’ll be able to tell such a large difference between them. Nintendo has been eager to expand it’s gaming population and in order to do so we have to invite people who are not currently playing video games at all. And yes, so in the challenge, if we are simply going to say look, we have better graphics, I really don’t think they’ll be intrigued. That’s so, especially if they’re not interesting video games. So to them, the comparison doesn’t make any difference to them. It doesn’t affect their judgement to buy or not video games at all. Rather, in order to invite them to the world we’re getting, we have to say this is something for you, this is interesting for you. Sort of why don’t you touch it and if you touch it I’m sure you’re going to love it. That kind of message is more important than saying it’s beautiful graphics, simply that. And for most avid gamers players who are eager to purchase the PS3 or Xbox 360 we don’t care… we believe they are waiting to participate as well. They are different machines and after all, Revolution is far from… Revolution can give an experience which is quite different from even the experience of of Xbox 360 or PS3. So I think what we are trying to do is that make Revolution so that it makes sense for them to buy both if they are waiting to purchase PS3 or Xbox 360, and in the end what we really want to do is… Our Revolution machine is to be held and appreciated by so many people who love to play with Xbox 360 or PS3.”
Nintendo is abandoning the gamer. You don’t believe me watch interview. It’s clearly the tone they’re taking. They are specifically going after the non-gamer. That to them that is the untapped market.
He says as plainly as can be that graphics don’t matter because the non-gamer is not interested in better graphics. The controller is design specifically for non-gamers. Nintendo’s best selling games recently (Nintendogs, Excercises For Your Brain, etc) are all non-games. See a pattern here? Iwata even goes as far as to speak of the Revolution and the PS3/360 as two seperate systems targetted at two different people. He acknowledges that “avid gamers” are waiting for the PS3/360, but thinks that they want to play the Revolution as well.
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:hmm: