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[OdanUrr]

I just don't think it's a very good one.

In a message from the President of Nintendo, Satoru Iwata, to shareholders and investors he's stated Nintendo's intention to focus on developing content that improves people's quality of life.
 

“…As the business environment around us has shifted with the times, we have decided to redefine entertainment as something that improves people’s quality of life (“QOL”) in enjoyable ways and expand our business areas. What Nintendo will try to achieve in the next 10 years is a platform business that improves people’s QOL in enjoyable ways.”

Full message of Satoru Iwata:

http://www.nintendo....nt/message.html

GameRant Article:

http://gamerant.com/...-life-platform/

What do you think? Is this the right strategy for Nintendo?

[OdanUrr]

Well, they pretty much lost their hold on the console market when it comes to everything that isn't casual gaming. They appear to have realized that and are cutting their losses and now focus on the casual market and add some more "health games" to the list aswell as making the console more multimedia it seems.

It does look like their strategy is trying to recapture the Wii market somehow by appealing to families. Microsoft's trying the "home entertainment system" approach whereas Nintendo's trying the "quality of life" one.

[NekkidNones]

I don't know if I'd say it's a bad plan. Not an exciting one from gamers perspective, surely. But then again, there is nothing exciting about minivans either. Yet people who hate the idea of buying them still do.
I don't see the typical dlc market working well on Nintendo consoles. Devs would need to think a bit differently about how they manoeuvre additional sales revenue from consumers in Nintendo's ecosystem. Demographics, demographics, demographics.

[felipejiraya]

If Nintendo was a western company Iwata would be so fired by now.

[This is the End My Friend]

I couldn't help myself. Note Wii-U reference. 

 

[OdanUrr]

I couldn't help myself. Note Wii-U reference. 

 

 

That gif is and will always be hilarious.

[Battlebloodmage]

Nintendo is a bit too arrogant for their own good. I like them a lot, but they're getting more and more out of touch with the larger audience. While it's understandable for them to cater to Japan, they need to understand that their system is being made to appeal worldwide. Their games are becoming too specialized in taste, and they barely get any input from game developers. They should have expected when no one wants to develop games for the Wii U. There is no integration in the game accounts, and there are barely any support for online games. They use the same business practice hoping it to work time and time again, but it's not going to. Time changes, and people are now more into action, RPG, story branching, and FPS types of games. If Nintendo wants to continue to prosper in the console market, they need to start listening instead of assuming what the audience wants. 

 

[Mr.House]

Well, they pretty much lost their hold on the console market when it comes to everything that isn't casual gaming. They appear to have realized that and are cutting their losses and now focus on the casual market and add some more "health games" to the list aswell as making the console more multimedia it seems.

Ya, I would like to see a non-gamer beat Tropical Freeze.....

[Wires_From_The_Wall]

I guess it is easy and tempting to ridicule and dismiss Nintendo for all kinds of reasons. For some reason or another people pretty conveniently and consistently forget how absolutely gigantic hit Nintendo DS has been. It is currently outselling Xbox One by clear margin. People who dismiss it as platform for " casual games"  don't know much about DS and it's catalog. Or alternatively,don't understand what casual games are.  

 

I've always much liked Nintendo's approach when it comes to controllers. Out of next gen controllers*, Wii U's touch pad is the  only one that can bring anything to table that improves experience of core gamer in relevant fashion.  Of course, since nobody but Nintendo makes games for Wii U, this is not something all that likely to actually get explored.

 

Western game studios and Nintendo have had fairly dysfunctional relationship for a very long time. Gamers suffer from this greatly; both Wiis have controller solutions any core gamer  playing on consoles would enjoy far more than anything Sony or MS have ever managed.

 

ie, nunchaku+Wii Mote makes an awesome control solution. Virtue of being able to keep my damn hands where ever I please (yes it sounded wrong) as I play my games is a big deal. It makes the whole 'couch-gaming experience', which has always been  so crucial for justifying WHY you'd use a console to play a game in 1st place, much more convinient.    Yet, nobody but Nintendo ever really utilized them.

It is a shame people haven't been able to experience their CODs and GTAs with Wii's controllers. Returnign to PS or Xbox pad after some nunchaku love feels mildly depressing, always. 

 

It is easy to start spelling doom for Nintendo when EA and co opt out. In doing so, we kinda forget Nintendo's history with core titles of their own. It makes a track record you can not even compare to anything game studios tied to MS or Sony have ever managed. Part of Nintendo's inability to woo western studios has to do with it's ridiculous, conservative jurassic approach..and part has to do with not-entirely-unjustified arrogance and belief they don't really need multiplatformers.

 

 

 

*ofc, it is pretty questionable if one should count wiiU as next gen at all.

[bmwcrazy]

Unless they meant making sex toys to accompany their video games, I can't think of a thing how Nintendo could improve my quality of life.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Nintendo has no plan. It just follows the footsteps of Xbox in that bad direction. NINTENDO IS DEAD. NINTENDO IS SO DEAD THAT I CAN SEE ITS BONES SHINING FROM ITS CORPSE! *EVIL LOL*

[AnAverageGamer]

Can't wait to see Super Mario Treadmill or Legend of Zelda: Aerobics.

[Fiddles dee dee]

The health phase isn't a bad one if it moves consoles (which I doubt it will). Nintendo are great at making fun games, they need more of them and some new IP. 

[mybudgee]

R.I.P.

 

We had some good times Nintendo... now it is time to rest. Rest...

[upsettingshorts]

Is it like the Cylon plan?

[SwobyJ]

Is it like the Cylon plan?

 

The Cylons never had a plan ((

[upsettingshorts]

The Cylons never had a plan ((

[SwobyJ]

I know.

[OdanUrr]

Code from Nintendo’s E3 2014 Site Hinting at New Console?
 

[ObserverStatus]

What do you think? Is this the right strategy for Nintendo?

No. No it's not. They should get Retro Studios to make Metroid Prime 4. That would be the right strategy.

[Dominus]

I think they're trying to survive, and this is their current route. Are they dead yet? Nope. The Wii U debacle isn't too far from the virtual boy fiasco of yesteryear. Hopefully they'll be smart enough to learn from this.

Code from Nintendo’s E3 2014 Site Hinting at New Console?

Wouldn't be a bad start. Wii U hardly pulled me in buying the console, let's see if they can pull themselves out of this. Not a big enough Nintendo fan anymore to worry much about it, but I recognize their legacy and influence in the gaming market so...what they're doing now seems like either a crutch as they recover, or a (relatively) new philosophy for Nintendo.

[Giga Drill BREAKER]

Nintendo should do what Sega did.

[Raizo]

Nintendo should do what Sega did.

I thought they already did, isn't that how we ended up with the Wii U ( aka the Dreamcast 2.0 ).

In all seriousness I am worried about Nintendo, they seem to be woefully out of touch with the average Western gamer wants and expects from a home console.

I also don't get why publisher and game developers don't want to make games for the Wii U, it's would be one thing if everyone had moved onto creating next gen games for the PS4 and Xbox One and they were concerned that the Wii U was not powerful enough to keep up but so far everyone is happy enough to keep making games for the PS3 and 360 and on paper the Wii U is more powerful then both so why are there no 3rd party games for it. I blame the relatively small Hard Drive Soave for a lot of publishers being afraid to support Nintendo's Wii U. No modern day home console should ship with anything less than a 100 GB HD.

To be honest Nintendo have whored out Mario to the point where I no longer give a crap about a new Mario game and I am so sick and tired of Nintendo re telling the same old Zelda tale over and over and over again, you can only go to the well so many times before I runs dry. They need more IP's and they need to spread the love to some of thier lesser known IP's like Star Fox, F Zero and Metroid