Soon it is time again for the annual Leipzig Game Convention. Electronic Arts, Sony, Take-Two Interactive, Ubisoft, Activsion-Blizzard, Microsoft, Sega, Codemasters, Atari: all of the major publishers are there. Except For Nintendo. The current leader in the console war shines by their absence.
Some claim that Nintendo, the Game Convention is skipped because it is the lee, manny, and after the press conference at the last E3-gamebeurs. Nonsense, because even before the E3 started it was known that Nintendo is not to Leipzig would travel. Nintendo is also not present at the Tokyo Game Show, later this year.
Nintendo is sailing their own course and choose their own media moments. That is quite a bit of a pity. Unfortunately for nieuwtjesjagers, bad for business and bad for the consumer that during the days of fairs of this kind will inform. Moreover, it is a pity for the atmosphere, because Nintendo is a part of course just. It would be something to a car show in the netherlands without BMW, to name a few.
It is, of course, the right of Nintendo to a private course. That is why the apology from Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata just after the E3 misplaced. He apologized for the fact that there are too few hardcore games were announced, and was shocked by the angry comments on forums. I venture the sincerity of his excuses to doubt.
Nintendo sells tens of thousands of DS-and per week and the Wii is now also in North America the best-selling game console. The company may, as a Dagobert Duck swimming in the earned dollars, yen and euros, and it’s all thanks to a new course. Nintendo has decided a few years ago to the helm to throw and not to join the technological rat race of Microsoft and Sony. After the flopping of the Gamecube, it was time for a different sound, and that sound came in the form of easily accessible controls, easily-accessible games and everyday applications that are new appeal to consumers. Why would you need to apologise? Why should Nintendo not be proud of his performance?
I think that Nintendo is the last time a bit overdo in the focus on casual games for the whole family, and I think it’s a shame that Nintendo has important gamebeurzen left. But then I speak on behalf of the gamer in me, who enjoys games like Metroid, Super Mario Galaxy and Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. The fact that Iwata promises that they also have hardcore games in the making, is actually a sham. A sop to the hardcore fans. Of course there certainly do again once a new Zelda or a new Mario, but for the time being, the focus is anything but on such titles. If you as a Nintendo fan still not got it, then you are in my opinion very after lwa ef. I’m not really waiting for Wii Music and Wii Sports Resort, but from a commercial perspective, are such titles as a smart move of Nintendo.
The Nintendo of 2008 is another Nintendo has become, or the old loyal guard that like it or not. Nintendo doesn’t need to come up with forced apologies, but just continue on the same path. That the company has, as yet, to no avail because laid.