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Friday, March 11, 2005
And then, he makes fun of the way I talk! Probably! | Oh man, I love that line from the Simpsons episode involving Bush 41. Pure gold. ~_^
The last week has been...strange. Maybe it shouldn't seem odd for me to say that. Somehow all of my weeks end up strange in one way or another. Depending on what happens, I may or may not reflect on this in more detail in the future. There's a good dose of "fronting" for you. Or something.
I have to say, I'm impressed with today's announcements from Nintendo at GDC.
If you have been following Nintendo for the last few years, none of this will really come as a surprise. Iwata is just continuing to show his overall coolness/boldness.
Perhaps the best thing about today's announcement is that it signals a coming period where Nintendo isn't worried about getting bloody fists. Where it awkwardly tried to mesh a traditional and non-traditional business model with GameCube (ie: pre-Iwata's presidency), it is now taking the gloves off and clocking Sony right in the jaw.
It's nice to see that, if only because it means Nintendo will leap out of the gates and pull no punches. If anything, it should also hopefully mean that Revolution can really expand the market for new players; something the market desperately needs.
All of this coincides with the latest projections about the next generation, in terms of costs and so on. It looks like big-budget games (that cost around $20 million to produce) will need to sell at least 600,000 units on console to break even. It's going to be insane. It'll further the whole "highly successful or nothing" reality.
So of course, we're starting to hit that ceiling now. I think the industry is in a state of change at the moment and the coming generation will be the first real indication of where the chips will land.
Very interesting time to be a gamer. ^_^
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