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 | This week I ponder some bad advice Nintendo has been getting, and also consider whether, as some insist, console gaming is at death's door and Nintendo needs to make smartphone games instead (hint: it's not, they don't). I don't know what I'll be writing next week, but the week after is the week of video game trade show E3, when Nintendo will make all its Wii U announcements and we will finally be able to separate rumor and speculation from fact, at least to some degree. These week though, I do have a little more rumor and speculation for you. | |
Listed: The Top Stupid Advice Nintendo is Getting
With Nintendo about to launch the Wii U, everyone feels it's a good time to tell them what they're doing wrong and how they can fix it. I've done that myself, but I do it as someone who likes what Nintendo is doing. Some people advise Nintendo as though they don't really like much about its products, and the advice they give sometimes strikes me as downright odd. I've listed the four worst ideas Nintendo has recently had from analysts and journalists; you can read what they are and why they're wrong in The Top Stupid Advice Nintendo is Getting.
| Pondered: Will the iPhone Kill Console Gaming?
Some industry analysts are insisting that game consoles are a losingproposition, that the best thing publishers like Nintendo can do is to start moving into smartphone games before it's too late. Are the doomsayers right, or will the console game industry, like the theatrical movie industry did after TV was supposed to kill it, live on? I look at the issue in my analysis,Will the iPhone Kill Console Gaming?.
| Rumor: Retro Studios Introducing Samus to Star Fox
Paul Gale Networks has heard that Retro Studios may be working on a Wii U game that combines the Star Fox and Metroid franchises, with players switching back and forth between Star Fox flight combat and Metroid action-adventure... Read more
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