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Iwata's speech (Current game industry trends)

Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:27 pm
by Artemio
I bet most of you read through it... I realy liked it. I am still waiting to watch it on video. But tehre was one part of it that I really loved (I agree with all of it, I am glad Nintendo is there)
Satoru Iwata wrote:Like any other entertainment medium, we must create an emotional response in order to succeed. Laughter .. fear .. joy .. anger .. affection .. surprise .. and most of all, pride of accomplishment. In the end, triggering these feelings from our players is the true judgement of our work. This is the bottom-line measurement of success.
The rest of the speech is available at http://planetgamecube.com/news.cfm?action=item&id=6094

I found it very interesting and also reassuring... since I, particularlky, am not too fond of the big projects out theer today or the general direction the industry seems to be going.

Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2005 12:03 pm
by Artemio
Well, I read another interesting conference by Greg Costikyan from the GDC, chek it out. Might be a little harsh, but very valid:

http://www.costik.com/weblog/2005_03_01 ... 0589189590

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:42 pm
by Artemio
Well, I guess there is not much interest in these themes... I must say that I do care a lot about them, and I've found more opinions:

http://www.gamespy.com/articles/597/597036p1.html
The people starting those restaurants are a LOT like most startup game developers. They think that because they like food, they can run a restaurant.
http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2 ... _burn.html

And on the side, I found reading this interesting in more than one sense:

http://archive.gamespy.com/gdc2004/chal ... ndex.shtml
http://www.gamespy.com/articles/594/594861p1.html

Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 11:03 pm
by Ninja Kurosai
Almost every medium is facing the same problem.... greedy bastards out for money will be the downfall of the human race, mock my words.

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:27 am
by hybridtheory
Ninja Kurosai wrote:Almost every medium is facing the same problem.... greedy bastards out for money will be the downfall of the human race, mock my words.
True that...well yea it's pissing me off esp. EA

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 2:12 am
by Snake Plissken
It's not long till we see this as it is anyways, already happening to all games.

http://fs5.deviantart.com/i/2004/287/8/ ... 2eflux.jpg

Credit to my bud lander who also rats around here once and a while :cool:

Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 7:44 pm
by Crowley
Plissken, I get "File not found" from that link.

Anyway, I think that the "problem" is exactly that games take a long time and lot of money to make. Developers want to make profit. I'm not quite sure that say, ten-twenty years ago the relative amount of truly good games was all that bigger, but the absolute amount was. It was simply that since it required a much smaller investment to make a game, more were made. Maybe more people were willing to go for something new and exciting, but that doesn't equal quality.

Going off from a tangent here, I think it's kind of similar to the state of manga and anime these days. I've seen/heard some people saying how great all that coming from Japan is. Well folks, that's not the deal. There's plenty of truly horrible and uninspired stuff out there, not to mention the vast sea of mediocrity. There is simply a huge amount of manga made in Japan, and what gets translated and imported tends to be the cream of the crop.

Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2005 12:50 pm
by Rick Deckard
I'm still trying to think of a way to make fun of Ninja Kurosai's post...

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:08 am
by Spartikcus
Rick Deckard wrote:I'm still trying to think of a way to make fun of Ninja Kurosai's post...
I found a way to make fun of him.
He should have said MARK my words not MOCK , If I mock them I am making fun of them. :lol:

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:55 pm
by Rick Deckard
Jesus Fucking Christ.

Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:29 pm
by Snake Plissken
Rick Deckard wrote:I'm still trying to think of a way to make fun of Ninja Kurosai's post...
Spartikcus wrote:I found a way to make fun of him.
He should have said MARK my words not MOCK , If I mock them I am making fun of them. :lol:

Eh, knock it off guys. Don't turn this place into IGN lol.

as for that link, sorry, here's the appropriate one, http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/11403115/

Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 7:03 am
by Spartikcus
Rick Deckard wrote:Jesus Fucking Christ.
It was a joke man. :???:

Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:19 am
by Rick Deckard
Spartikcus wrote:It was a joke man. :???:
Yes, and thanks for needlessly deconstructing it!