“Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata recently reiterated that Nintendo will not develop games for Apple’s iPad, iPod and iPhone, despite recent pressure from investors to jump on the iOS bandwagon,” Todd Haselton reports for BGR.
“‘This is absolutely not under consideration,’ Iwata told the Japanese news outlet Nikkei following the company’s recent 3DS press conference. ‘If we did this, Nintendo would cease to be Nintendo,'” Haselton reports.
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: With fools like that in charge, Nintendo is nearly certain to cease to being Nintendo.
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The problem with nentindo isn’t there hardware, it’s the fact that they don’t value user generated content or 3rd party software
at all
this makes there hardware rather frustrating and feel useless
And what exactly is user generated content necessary at all for a game console. Not saying it isn’t nice, but it’s far from being their biggest problem.
And it’s not like they don’t value 3rd party software. It’s just that 3rd parties know that Nintendo hardware is always severely outdated and not fit for “real” games. So no one other than Nintendo themselves and the odd developer make any kind of decent game. The market is inundated with piss-poor games that milk the hardware’s current gimmick (Wii-mote, dual screens, 3D, now iPad-ish mirroring…)
Actually the iPad-ish mirroring from Wii U is a nice idea, but alone it won’t make them any better than the PS4 or the 720. Most of the benefit they can get with normal controls + touch screen is either cosmetic or, in the event of using only the touchscreen, getting the same types of games you can get on an iPad… and you won’t buy a console to play the same things you play on your tablet.
Sony and Microsoft, on the other hand, are lethargic and lazy as well, and lost two years developing the useless crap that was the Move and Kinect. Should Apple enter at all on the sector, even indirectly, they would crush all 3 companies.
He doesn’t even realize that someone moved his cheese.
I’d like it if Nintendo would put their classic games out for iOS and use them as a lead in to their upscale games on their proprietary hardware.
‘If we did this, Nintendo would cease to be Nintendo’
… And I would continue to be incapable of caring less.
“Apple’s president replies and says nintendio is NOT a threat at all to Apple and that in fact, they are glad their poor business vision is staying away”