Miyamoto: Games Other Companies are Doing are Boring - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 17 November 2014 / 4,782 Views
Nintendo's own Shigeru Miyamoto in an interview with The Telegraph has talked bad about their rival gaming developers. He says the games they develop make business sense, but they are boring. He wants Nintendo to develop games that are unique.
"What the other companies are doing makes business sense," said Miyamoto. "But it’s boring. The same games appear on every system. At Nintendo we want an environment where game creators can collaborate and think of ideas for games that could have never happened before."
When asked if Nintendo is working on virtual reality again, Miyamoto said he has nothing to say and that Nintendo has nothing to announced at this time.
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Yeah, everything the other businesses do is boring.
I mean, all they do is recreate the same games over and over and over on new consoles. Call of Duty, Dragon Age, Far Cry, all that stuff works great for business, but the same games appear on every system.
But not like Nintendo. Nintendo has games like Mario Kart, Smash Bros., Super Mario Bros, Pikmin, Pokemon, WarioWare, Wii Sports, Metroid or Paper Mario.
NEVER BEEN DONE BEFORE!!!!!
Exactly, screw Nintendo and their "we always do original unique stuff", bullshit. Mario is not new, you've done everything with him. He's been whored out to every possible genre and situation known to man. Same thing for their EVERYTHING ELSE.
Miyamoto needs to stop talking, he's getting desperate and starting to lose favor and respect from me.
"What the other companies are doing"... "ARE" indicates present tense. He isn't speaking about games crossing console generations. He is speaking about the games that are available or in the works for the current generation and how similar a lot of those games are to each other. Nintendo has more exclusive software than everyone else, point blank.
1st Party software is expected to appear on 1st party hardware. Not only does it make business sense but it would be a problem for fans if it didn't. Despite the pressure from fans however, Nintendo very rarely creates more than one or two installment of any series per console generation. Mario galaxy for instance, is the only 3D Mario game with a direct sequel and every other iteration in the franchise is drastically different.
@Tridrakious ... Mario is the default character Nintendo uses to promote new game play experiences within game genres (like party, racing or fighting) that simply don't require a huge fleshed out story with expensive cuts and voice actors excetera. He's a well known face and an established mascot for the company. People who recognize Mario will know that it is a game that you can just pick up and play without a lot of complicated jargon or tutorials. It makes sense
how ironic, mario been milked more than cod
Oh dear at the people who have such an opinion on the "100 mario games" but didn't bother to invest enough time to listen to Iwata speaking about why Nintendo did that practice recently, was a pretty easy to understand explaination. They focus on making great games, when it comes to what main character they put to it, use Mario, it's a face people know and love + making up a whole new character for a great game is a waste of time unless the game mechanics require it, i.e. splatoon wouldn't make sense with Mario shooting ink and swimming in it.
I much prefer them spend the dev time on great games rather than focusing on making a new "generic gun holding muscle man" for this years outing of Call of Muscle Man 4 : Gun Warrior.
The excuse Iwata gives is only valid when your games have zero story, that is what he did not say, he is trying to justify it but the truth is nintendo games are like table top games (like monopoly or risk), while everyone else is making immersive games.
I don't think so. Your still giving Nintendo the pass. Games like Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, so on all offer new mechanics. The problem is Nintendo hardly ever expands out of it. It shouldn't have taken this long to get something like Splatoon. They play it safe just as much as anyone. They are just as boring. EA at one point came out with Dead Space and Mirror's Edge. That is more chances for a company that gets hammered constantly with hate but Nintendo gets the pass. I really could make endless examples comparable with all developers. Nintendo's is no exception regardless of their imprint in gaming history.
I don't think so. Your still giving Nintendo the pass. Games like Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, so on all offer new mechanics. The problem is Nintendo hardly ever expands out of it. It shouldn't have taken this long to get something like Splatoon. They play it safe just as much as anyone. They are just as boring. EA at one point came out with Dead Space and Mirror's Edge. That is more chances for a company that gets hammered constantly with hate but Nintendo gets the pass. I really could make endless examples comparable with all developers. Nintendo's is no exception regardless of their imprint in gaming history.
- @radha ... Your comment seems to only take Mario games into account here... You're completely ignoring the fact that Nintendo is also the owner of The Legend of Zelda, Fire Emblem, Metroid and Xenoblade (Which was voted one of the best games of its generation) Franchises. Ganoncrotch had a very valid point but he didn't highlight that Mario is also the default character Nintendo uses to promote new game play experiences within games (like party, racing or fighting games) that simply don't require a huge fleshed out story with expensive cuts and voice actors excetera. It makes sense
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@ Keegs79... What pass is Nintendo getting? The "new mechanics" with each iteration of the 3D Mario games alone are far more obvious than that of the new CoD and AC iterations combined... In the SM3DW you can literally blow on the controller and have the wind of your breath send enemies flying off the screen, While AC, a stealth game, is only just now giving players the ability to duck in AC Unity)
Claiming that they're unwilling to "expand out of it" seems extremely presumptuous when they've already "expanded" so much... How are Dead Space and Mirror's Edge even relevant here? Nintendo once published Eternal Darkness and holds the patent for the Insanity System in that game. Jean Guesdon (Ubisoft designer) and Raphael Lacoste (AC's Art Director) have both admitted to drawing inspiration from TLoZ franchise and you highlight these games and other completely ignoring the fact the they are ALL using enhanced versions of the 3D mechanics and adjustable camera system coined by Nintendo with Mario 64...
You should really should look into some of the "Chances" Nintendo is and has taken... virtual reality, motion control, and internet access before the Xbox and Playstation Brands even existed.
What he is saying is what Sony and Microsoft are doing as hardware manufacturers has an element to it which is boring. That element is that they largely have the same games library. He did not say that the great games 3rd parties are making is boring. It's a very misleading article title. The title is a click troll.
The difference between almost all Mario games and COD and those games is that they bring new stuff to the Mario game so they just use the same characters on the Mario games. In COD games are like buying the same game every year with new stages and right now just with the EXO thing.
Oh PS: I have my PS4, XboxOne and a WiiU so I love the different things that each console has to offer on their consoles but the lack of exclusive games on PS4 and XboxOne makes me not play them at all and use more my WiiU that has more exclusive games.
Miyamoto's comment has been completely warped by a lot of you the "other companies" he's referring to are MS and Sony Not Activison and Ubisoft and the games he's referring to Are games like CoD and AC but only the fact the they are both available on the XB1 and PS4... His point was that Different/Unique games are available on the Wii U
Still I'd be remiss if I didn't point out that Nintendo franchises are over 30 years older than some of the other companies games so OF COURSE their core franchises are going to have iterations... But you still have games like CoD who in 11 years have many more games in their franchise than a series like Mario Kart which is more than twice as old.
Also Nintendo has always been a gaming company and pretty much only focuses on games but both MS and Sony are Huge corporations with much more resources and funding to dump into hardware/software... Sony is over 8 times the size of Nintendo and MS is even larger than that. The "Big N" is very much a Ma and Pa store compared to those other two Walmarts.
Some day, people may stop taking Nintendo exec's comments out of context and putting them in clickbait articles, but it is not this day.
It doesn't matter what's been done before. It's an opinion. You guys are TOO offensive.
Yes the company that makes virtually no NEW IP's and has made probably 100 mario games wants to be unique? Fuck off they make Activision look like saints.
Hahahahaha!!! Good joke human, you made this robot laugh, hahahahahaha!!!
That's a pretty gross generalization there. Nintendo is doing a lot of new ip's (Xenoblade, S.T.E.A.M, The Last Story, Steel Diver, Pandora's Tower, Dillon's Rolling Western, Pushmo, The Wonderfull 101, Sakura Samurai, Wii Fit, and Wii Sports come to mind as of recent ) and each mario game provides unique gameplay elements. Mario is basically a mascot and allows for a variety of play styles and and exciting new gameplay innovations.
What a nerve from this guy.Actually have no shame after all this period of low company sales.Clown with a smile and a post full of his fanboys without real facts.
''We're making games never been done before''
Nintendo, you make the most unoriginal games out there.
he has spoken
He's sort of right, but I wouldn't say that the last Nintendo games are exactly "exciting"...
its a little hypocritical(since they do that with mario) but he isnt wrong
