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Nintendo Legend Miyamoto: Mario Needs To Evolve To Survive (cnet.com)
Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's legendary game designer, and his fellow developers were tinkering with a "one-button control scheme" for Mario, where all a player can do is make Mario jump. This dead simple idea became the crux of the company's new Super Mario Run, one of the most anticipated mobile-app games of the year. CNET adds: "We found a great way to make an accessible Mario game and bring it to iPhone and reach a lot of people," Miyamoto said Thursday through his translator. "That's when we decided to make Super Mario Run." Super Mario Run may become a critical next step for Nintendo, which has struggled for years to maintain its relevance in gaming against Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox, as well as a surge of mobile gaming apps. This year, it garnered some attention from Pokemon Go, though it's only partly involved in that game. Now, two more Nintendo mobile gaming apps -- Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem -- are on the way, which could provide the Japanese company with a big boost.
a suped up Flappy Bird. I hope it's a good game though.
So one of the world's oldest and biggest game companies has run out of ideas, and their very survival hinges on a clone of a simple game some Vietnamese guy wrote in a couple of hours. Good luck with that. It was nice knowing you Nintendo.
Tell that to to Sega, and Sonic. They couldn't figure out how to make a fun 3-D version, and Nintendo won.
Mario is doing just fine in both 2-D and 3-D.
You'd have to be an idiot to think that people want the world's most recognized platforming hero (even at the end of the Rio Olympics), to change drastically at the core.
One button is all you need. Great idea.
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Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
I can't seem to get enough stardust or candy however hard I try. When I looked up what he evolves into it just appears to be a lawsuit.
CANABALT is actually a lot of fun, but it's pretty sad if Miyamoto's so out of ideas a CANABALT clone is the best he can come up with.
I've been playing it for years.
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Just like Shelley Duvall said about Robin Williams!
Pokémon Go showed something last summer.
That is there is money to be made selling software and services. Who makes money with console hardware these days?
If I were Nintendo I would make my tools available for Sony and MS and a lite mobile version in a licensing agreement. I would use my games ported as leverage to convince a sharing with Sony and Microsoft to sell Nintendo APIs on their stores and tools.
Who here would buy MarioKart for their ps4 or phone if it were available?
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In the name of diversity he should evolve into a girl.
Also he should change his name into Giana.
And get a sister.
They already did the Dark World in Mario 3. They did flicker the lights on now and then as an assistance to the poor "sighted" people.
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
That won't work for the kids, who use a tablet that's not allowed to access the internet
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This has got to be this year's biggest understatement. I wonder if in the original Japanese it was quote so muted.
it garnered some attention from Pokemon Go
Hard for me to see Mario on anything other than a 2-D scroller. I grew up with an Atario 2600 then got an NES about ~2 years after it's initial debut. I think I've honestly bought every NES console platform and half the hand-helds for my kids (and as an old crusty adult now) JUST to play that updated Mario gaming look-and-feel. It's too embedded into my childhood and adult (and now my kids passed down) life, that it's hard for me to never try a invention or re-invention of Mario.
I agree with most, if this is a flappy bird clone, I hope it's wicked polished and keeps my attention. I just hate to see a legacy evolve into the fickle mobile gaming market. I realize that's where it's at now --- but to see an absolute epic gen-X gaming icon like Mario be tried out for 30 seconds and deleted like the rest of the gaming apps for all the AD(H)D nuts who have an entertainment and attention span of 2.5 seconds, it would be a shame for both Nintendo and anyone who has appreciated Mario for that long to do that IMHO.
But, once I pay my $10 like everyone else soon, if it sucks and looks like that one mobile game-of-the-week I played yesterday, then that is something none of us can control.
I can't wait to play $Mario game again for the first time on a new console!
Infinite runner "games" are garbage. Literally the most pointless and pathetic excuse for a game.
You might as well click a pen. Then you can be as stupid as Homer Simpson.
Perfect for today's generation of retards though.
Mario has always been Mario. There have been variations, but that is not evolution, just variation of the same character. Likewise, Donkey Kong has always been Donkey Kong. The two have never evolved from some common ancestor. They were created by a common designer. Mario will never be anything other than a variation of Mario.
Psilocybin mushrooms have been linked to human evolution.
Before the NES/Famicom was released in the US, Nintendo games (proper Nintendo games, not just crappy 3rd party titles that licensed thr Mario/Zelda characters) could be had on many different home computers and gaming consoles. Looks like they are returning to doing that.
Did they just throw Metroid under the bus? That would be their fourth major franchise as it was wildly popular, but it seems to be buried as of late.
Mario 64 like on PC
This really isn't that hard
While it's sad they are just cashing in on someone else's idea, what will be sadder is when the people that came up with one button games get sued by a company with the power to work the patent system.