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Nintendo May Start Selling 'Computer Software' (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Nintendo's most recent fiscal-year disclosure made headlines for announcing a release window for the new "Nintendo NX" console and yet another Zelda game delay, but it also included news of serious corporate restructuring. The short version: Nintendo will soon involve a supervisory committee in making top-level executive decisions. A Tuesday announcement included the company's amended articles of incorporation, expected to be approved by shareholders this June, and it included three new entries in its "business engagement" list: restaurants, medical and health devices, and "computer software." The choice of adding "computer software" to that list, on the other hand, seems particularly curious -- especially since Nintendo's existing list of engaged businesses includes terms that sound very much like computer software, particularly the broad term of "contents such as games, images, and music." That list also revised an entry that used to say that the company would license the "use or reproduction of copyrighted works" and "trademarks." Now, Nintendo will license its "intellectual property rights." That shift to the term "intellectual property" includes copyrighted works and trademarks in an umbrella that also may include such Nintendo-owned concepts as patents.
You laugh, but I have five words for you: Pokemon MMO Game. You think Warcraft had an inbuilt fanbase? A decent Pokemon MMO would blow WoW's opening year out of the water, and a GOOD Pokemon MMO would dethrone WoW as the most successful MMO of all time, easily. And of the many many games out there, the Pokemon universe and game play translates the very best to an MMO.
Funny.
More expensive must be some slang term to you that just means whatever you need it to mean to make a point for you.
Meanwhile I've spent under $1200 to game on PC for over 15 years. Adding up the price of just the Xboxes that came out in that time is more. Same with Playstations. Consoles are a hassle, you upgrade by buying a whole new system and you lose your games when the old one breaks. If my computer breaks, I replace one part not the whole thing.
And, the games I play with a controller on PC support controllers natively. And the games that don't are better with a mouse. Come up with a complaint that hasn't been solved for a decade.
All those complaints you have aren't about PC being a bad platform, it's just that you play shit games from shit companies who can't be bothered to make controllers work for instance.