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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.
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.
- Steve Jobs
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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.
Are you suggesting that dumbing down is not progress? Because I think we can all name a few major software companies that seem to live by that strategy.
Nintendo's survival does not hinge on a $10 mobile game. Not even close. Your post and this article are poorly informed and borderline inflammatory.
Nintendo's future largely depends on the success of the Switch but even if that goes belly up, Nintendo still has plenty of cash in the bank so stop with the doom and gloom nonsense.
Nintendo seems to survive all predictions of biting the bullet.
I've been playing it for years.
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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.
Yea, I think Nintendo's ability to adapt is too conservative as well.
I grew up on Nintendo but I have not purchased anything from them in a long time now. Mainly because I have now sworn off consoles due to the landscape, but even when 360 and ps3 were around I bought those but no Nintendo. Their library is too small and far more games are arriving on the PC compared to the consoles.
Consoles need to die, they are long past the point of serving their purpose.
>Nintendo's survival does not hinge on a $10 mobile game
You're right, the actual game is not The Savior. The article is really about Nintento's ability to grow with the times. This game is merely an effect of that.
Remember, Nintendo began as a card game company. CARD GAMES! So to even be participating in mobile anything is commendable.
Kids don't buy shit. The parents do. The whole reason my daughter doesn't have a DS, is because I already gave her a tablet (amazon fire for $35 loaded with Cyanogenmod). That, some emulators and a cheap ipega-9023 Bluetooth controller under the tree and she can play everything from NES to DS.
Why would I buy her a 3DS? for $199 when I can get her so much more. By the time she burns through the pokemon back catalog, the 3DS emulators will have matured enough for her to play Sun/Moon too.
Handhelds are dying and Nintendo knows it. I just don't see how a 1-button version will work. You need fireballs and jumping to be Mario.
PS4 sales show you are completely off the mark, but lets not stop the PC gaming circle jerk.
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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It will work because it's meant to pique your interest for the full fledged game on the their hardware. Nintendo are looking to increase their exposure and lure people to their system. It worked for Pokemon GO as pre-orders for Pokemon Sun/Moon were the highest Nintendo has seen for any title in their history.
Good lord did Pokémon Go work. My daughter has never even played it, but she's not OBSESSED with Pokémon. Thus, her playing the GBA versions of the games. I can't understate the obsessed factor.
In counterpoint to that I think Nintendo is the most adaptable of the 3 console makers.
Last Christmas we agreed that it was time for a new console in our house. I initially assumed it would be a PS4 or XBone, but as I looked into the games available everything I was interested in on PS4 or XBone will also be released for PC. The PS4 and XBone are so similar to a PC that I saw no point in them. I went with the Wii U and am quite happy with it. I doubt I'll be getting a Switch next year, but I can envision getting one at some point. I can't envision getting a console that's mostly indistinguishable from a PC and Nintendo is the only console maker that seems to offer anything else.
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
She has her own 42 inch TV
Roku 3
Raspberry PI 3 w/ RetroPie and Kodi
Bluetooth PS3 controller for said Pi
Tablet
Then in the game room, is another TV, XBOX, WII, another PI setup, Roku, and enough other toys to make a Saudi Arabian princess jealous. She's spoiled rotten and she knows it.
Will I spend $200 for an underpowered device and then another $40 for games.... no. There just isn't enough value in being current.
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.
The nintendo catalog tends to be focused on couch co-op. The PS4 and Xbox tend to cater to more mature audiences, and they tend to almost always focus on online multiplayer. While online multiplayer is still playing with other people, it's really you, sitting by yourself in a room, talking over some tubes to other people. It's just not the same as sitting down together and playing a game.
The PS4 is now a cut-down PC with a closed operating system, and the vast majority of games that it gets are "remasters" (nudge nudge, wink wink) of older PC titles.
Apple too
It basically boils down to "Stop liking what I don't like. I don't like _______ therefore no one does and its going out of business!"
There are plenty of "one-button" games that are better than Flappy Bird.
Jetpack Joyride is one of them, as is the recently updated Tiny Wings (after a couple of years ...).
Both of which I paid the 99 cents for because they were highly enjoyable and fun. And yes, I bought Jetpack Joyride before it became free. And it still remains one of the better Freemium games where payment is not required at all (except for a couple of specific characters). But you don't need to pay to win and grinding to get the stuff isn't too bad either.
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.
Vast majority? How? It gets tons of NEW games each month, and many of those games are simultaneously released new to PC, so they are by definition not "remasters".
(BTW, I 'just' got a PS4, and purposely buy old games myself, and would rather play old/cheap games.. so I wouldn't care if what you said were true.. but it's not.)
That's only fair...looking at the Steam catalog, the majority of new games are ports of smartphone games, with a good amount of RPG Maker and visual novelettes.
Correct. Windows 10 is dumbed down compared to Windows 7. Those with abilities hate it. Those who lack technical prowess love it, as it's right up their alley. It's too bad that "new" users will only experience dumbed-down and remain at that level. So it'll have to be dumbed down even further.
I forget which Sci-Fi story it was, but eventually society will transform into 2 classes: the tech-savvy sub-class minority that keeps things running, and the vast majority that's completely ignorant of anything "under the hood" (it just works! don't ask why! geez! just enjoy it!) and remain at a natural intelligence level of 12-year olds.
The Lost Levels is for gamers. Jumpy Mario is for idiots looking for a quick rush while it's popular, and do something else after 2-3 months.
When the copyright term is "forever minus a day", live every day like it's the last.
couch playing with a pc? that's what SteamOS is for!
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.