Nintendo Files Patent For Game That Plays Itself

Kotaku points out a recent patent filed by Nintendo which automates gameplay unless the user specifically chooses to play a particular part of the game. Quoting: "The new system, described in a patent filed by Nintendo Creative Director Shigeru Miyamoto on June 30, 2008, but made public today, looks to solve the issue of casual gamers losing interest in a game before they complete it, while still maintaining the interest of hardcore gamers. The solution would turn a game into a full-length cut scene of sorts, allowing players to jump into and out of the action whenever they wanted. But when played this way, gamers would not be able to save their progress, maintaining the challenge of completing a game without skipping or cheating."

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Nintendo have finally realised...

[Arrakis Dv8r]

Nintendo have realized nobody cares enough about their crap games to finish them, so now they'll do it for you :)

Re:Nintendo does it, yes

[Moraelin]

[citation needed]

1. For example, Top 10 Tuesday: Wildest Statements Made by Industry Veterans. It's at number 4.

2. Do your own fucking research. It takes a whole 5 seconds to copy and paste that phrase into Google. Ah, wait, it's just another meme that lets retards pretend they're part of some big smart family by copy-and-pasting something. Carry on, then. No need to start using your own brain now, after all.

Re:Nintendo does it, yes

[Moraelin]

First of all, this is a discussion, not an encyclopedia or college. There is no burden of proof, and no claim of accuracy whatsoever. It's on par with overhearing gossip in the airplane. Nobody involved has any kind of duty to document it for you. If you find it interesting enough, do your own research, if not, you know, STFU.

Second, [citation needed] is an _impolite_ thing to slap onto a conversation. It's one thing to say, for example, "I keep hearing that, but I haven't actually found that interview anywhere. Can you provide a link?" And a whole other thing to slap a "[citation needed]" as if you had some right or expectation to one.

Again, you have none. It's a forum gossip. Nobody owes you a damn thing. If you can't do your own research, ask nicely. You don't go to your mom and say "food needed" either, and you probably don't go "break needed" in a meeting either. Learn to communicate like a human, not in Wikipedia tags. Especially since again you're not on Wikipedia.

And if some people are too retarded to communicate, or to tell when they're on a forum from when they're trolling Wikipedia, well, it's their problem not mine. _I_ don't owe them anything whatsoever.