Re:My Prescription for Nintendo
by wvenable on Sunday January 26, 2014 @02:21AM
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I don't think Nintendo has the software experience it turn it around. I don't mean in making games; that they can do. It's all the other software: the operating system, the SDK, the store, the online component.
Nintendo is used to developing for old school consoles; boxes with discs or cartridges and where people play together in one room. But when nearly every person has a connected smartphone, an HD TV, and broadband the expectations for a system are well beyond what Nintendo has proven they can do.
Until they accept they don't have the skills to do that part properly or start to believe that it is actually important then they will continue to fail.
Nintendo is used to developing for old school consoles; boxes with discs or cartridges and where people play together in one room. But when nearly every person has a connected smartphone, an HD TV, and broadband the expectations for a system are well beyond what Nintendo has proven they can do.
Until they accept they don't have the skills to do that part properly or start to believe that it is actually important then they will continue to fail.