Well I may or may not be cracked but you are right, I have not been following the news too closely Hiroshi Yamauchi stepped down. I was too frustrated to continue down the console video game development path. I am currently working in "cube land" as a software engineer just doing boring stuff:(
Opps you caught me! I changed what I was originally writing about:) I guess I got caugh up in the heat of the moment. Well what I origianlly meant other than "Nintendo is bad to developers" is that as Nintendo has moved from 8-bit to 16-bit to 64-bit to its current iteration they have lost a lot of the mass apeal because they have lost a lot of the third party developers. This was because (IMHO) of Nintendo's "Quality over Quantity" agenda implemented in the N64 days. Which was a noble idea but I think that the impact it had was to severely limt the game library over the long run, which also sent developers away to work on PS1 games.
It can be argued that the massive PS1 and PS2 libraries may be larger but still full of crap games and that Nintendo's strategy was a good one, but they are still behind Xbox and far behind PS2 in terms of units sold. This continues to hurt the GCube because there will be less "Exclusive" third party games because of the limited user base. This will be a giant cycle of decline for the GCube and no amount of Nintendo originals or Squaresoft games will be able to fix it.
I really hope that Nintendo becomes stronger in their next generation of consoles and that the company gets back to the top of home video-game entertainment. In order to do that they have to suck it up and start learning from their mistakes. (Which it sounds like they are from the other posts that I have been reading, I havn't been following them since Hiroshi Yamauchi stepped down as Inoshiro put it)
Wow I guess I missed out on the free dev kits at launch.:( I have mainly worked on the Game Boy advance side of things as far as development is concerned, but I have dabled a bit in GCube dev (mostly just argued with the big N).
Don't get me wrong, I have enjoy Game Cube and own both an XBox and a Game Cube (and I'm also 23) My dream has always been to develop on a nintend consloe, but things just arn't the same these days.
Nintendo has a major problem with their business strategy: their relationship with their developers. Nintendo still has the mindset of a console superpower and therefore treat third party developers like crap.
I have developed for Nintendo before and this could be seen as a rant, but if they want to shape up that should be their focus. The reason PS2 and XBox are doing well is they support and encourage their third party developers (Heck Micro$oft even paid for the development of a lot of projects during the early XBox days)
Nintendo on the other hand makes the debug kits and SDK hardware impossible to afford for small companies and the cart and burn fees are much worse than the same fees for Xbox and PS2.
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Well I may or may not be cracked but you are right, I have not been following the news too closely Hiroshi Yamauchi stepped down. I was too frustrated to continue down the console video game development path. I am currently working in "cube land" as a software engineer just doing boring stuff :(
Opps you caught me! I changed what I was originally writing about :) I guess I got caugh up in the heat of the moment. Well what I origianlly meant other than "Nintendo is bad to developers" is that as Nintendo has moved from 8-bit to 16-bit to 64-bit to its current iteration they have lost a lot of the mass apeal because they have lost a lot of the third party developers. This was because (IMHO) of Nintendo's "Quality over Quantity" agenda implemented in the N64 days. Which was a noble idea but I think that the impact it had was to severely limt the game library over the long run, which also sent developers away to work on PS1 games.
It can be argued that the massive PS1 and PS2 libraries may be larger but still full of crap games and that Nintendo's strategy was a good one, but they are still behind Xbox and far behind PS2 in terms of units sold. This continues to hurt the GCube because there will be less "Exclusive" third party games because of the limited user base. This will be a giant cycle of decline for the GCube and no amount of Nintendo originals or Squaresoft games will be able to fix it.
I really hope that Nintendo becomes stronger in their next generation of consoles and that the company gets back to the top of home video-game entertainment. In order to do that they have to suck it up and start learning from their mistakes. (Which it sounds like they are from the other posts that I have been reading, I havn't been following them since Hiroshi Yamauchi stepped down as Inoshiro put it)
Wow I guess I missed out on the free dev kits at launch. :( I have mainly worked on the Game Boy advance side of things as far as development is concerned, but I have dabled a bit in GCube dev (mostly just argued with the big N).
Don't get me wrong, I have enjoy Game Cube and own both an XBox and a Game Cube (and I'm also 23) My dream has always been to develop on a nintend consloe, but things just arn't the same these days.
Nintendo has a major problem with their business strategy: their relationship with their developers. Nintendo still has the mindset of a console superpower and therefore treat third party developers like crap. I have developed for Nintendo before and this could be seen as a rant, but if they want to shape up that should be their focus. The reason PS2 and XBox are doing well is they support and encourage their third party developers (Heck Micro$oft even paid for the development of a lot of projects during the early XBox days) Nintendo on the other hand makes the debug kits and SDK hardware impossible to afford for small companies and the cart and burn fees are much worse than the same fees for Xbox and PS2.