/v/ - Video Games

>100 billion yen ($910 million)

What fucking autist wrote this, he obviously means a billion dollar business

>>14726682

sources all go back to this twitter account

twitter.com/serkantoto/

>>14726682

>CATER TO MUH BURGER FEELINGS

This guy was head of the marketing department for Japan, I don't know if that means he had any influence on the advertising here in the West but if it does, there might be cause for worry. I don't want Nintendo to focus on the LA crowd.

>>14726670

>>the goal is to start selling it in the Middle East And South East Asia

The two regions with the biggest fucking weebs on the planet? Sweet.

>>Furukawa wants to change Nintendo internally

Does that means NoA will be restructured and Treehouse will finally receive the ax?

>>this includes a new committee consisting of five directors who will decide on product ideas together

Not sure how I should feel about that.

>he thinks there were too many people involved in the decision-making process before

Well, he's not wrong. However, that doesn't solve the fact that a lot of Nintendo's heads have ruined company and brought it to the current state it is in (Miyamoto, Sakurai, Sakamoto). So, here's hope they're not on the committee.

>In an interview with Nikkei, Furukawa said he wants to turn their mobile offerings into a 100 billion yen ($910 million) business.

I'm not too happy to hear that.

I’m split on him. On one hand, he is the first President of Nintendo to have grown up playing the games, so there is likely a sort of reverance he should have for the brands. On the other hand, being a younger guy, he may try to move Nintendo too drastically and fuck up the one thing Nintendo does right (make games) or make worse the things they already suck dick at (marketing, online, prices) or chase the mobile dosh.

Could go either way. Just give me Wonderful 102 and I won’t complain

>>14726700

>The two regions with the biggest fucking weebs on the planet? Sweet

lol no

They won't be marketing their product to weebs, its going to go through their communist governments/theocracies and get even more neutered so as to not to offend religious sensibilities.

>the goal is to start selling it in the Middle East And South East Asia

>yfw Nintendo is trying to overthrow Assad and Duterte to replace them with clones of Miyamoto

>>14726707

>They won't be marketing their product to weebs, its going to go through their communist governments/theocracies and get even more neutered so as to not to offend religious sensibilities.

That hasn't stopped the anime domination the region suffers from. It is no exaggeration to say that anime literally is the childhood of everyone in the Middle East.

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>>14726670

>Shuntaro Furukawa, has some lofty goals for the mobile side of Nintendo's business.

RIP

>>14726670

As long as Miyamoto isn't on the comittee (He will be). I'm tired of Shigeru "We can't make the game if it doesn't reinvent the wheel" Miyamoto keeping franchises dormant.

>>14726726

Gaming has been dead for years, Anon.

>>14726714

>That hasn't stopped the anime domination the region suffers from

Have you seen the anime they watch? Its all cut and chopped up to remove anything that could be remotely offensive. Even then all they watch is disposable garbage like Doraemon or Ninja Hattori.

>>14726726

Not likely. Traditional gaming is still profitable and everyone who likes traditional gaming prefers it to mobile shit. There will always be a market for it.

>>14726739

https://www.quora.com/Is-Japanese-animation-popular-in-Middle-Eastern-countries-such-as-Saudi-Arabia-Qatar-and-Kuwait

>about the topic of cultural differences and religion, there is isn't much conflict in between them to be honest. many stuff are actually common between the arabic/islamic culture and the japanese culture as well as there are some differences. but as I said, there is no real conflict. Only annoying extremists find it unacceptable and even they are a minority.

>anime or anime scenes that have conflicting material to culture and religion here can be avoided peacefully with no trouble and even that in the end goes back to personal choice. Though I think a country like saudi arabia is a bit more strict about it than other neighboring countries to it, can't say for sure though.

If it doesn't come at the cost of actual system titles I have no issue with the foundation of a mobile branch.

If he's taking developers off of the actual teams and cutting their funding I'm going to be angery.

>>14726757

Everyone complaining about the jews when the real NWO is made up of japs controlling the population through weeb shit.

>>14726670

>Furukawa said he wants to turn their mobile offerings into a 100 billion yen ($910 million) business.

So we can expect more games like that one Mario game for iOS. Did it actually make a substantial amount money for them to want to keep on expanding their mobile branch?

>>14726831

It was a joke. However, that doesn't excuse how much they fuck around with the South Korean government.

>>14726849

I could only make it a few minutes in. That shitter announcer sounds like a idealogue ready to diatribe about how globalization can be achieved, if not the ideal.

'Pundits' like himis that supersoycuck wolf? who hold such a mentality are going the way of the dinosaur. They will not survive in a world returning to form.

>>14726904

>I could only make it a few minutes in. That shitter announcer sounds like a idealogue ready to diatribe about how globalization can be achieved, if not the ideal.

That's exactly the opposite of what he says. Are you brain damaged?

>>14726715

never gonna happen they can afford to have a potato brain running the company at a loss for decades before being in any danger of bankruptcy

>>14726813

Is this supposed to be bad?

>>14726813

>>14727045

I for one welcome our new Nipponese overlords.

>>14726670

Everything is going to get worse and we're all going to enjoy it.

>>14726695

Currency exchange is the same everywhere, retard.

I know you wanted to bash Americans, but you just made yourself look as dumb as them.

>>14726670

>this includes a new committee consisting of five directors who will decide on product ideas together

>Furukawa will be included on the committee, and it seems he thinks there were too many people involved in the decision-making process before

This sounds interesting, so having a group of just 5 (including himself) may speed up approval of new game ideas significantly.

>"From what I can see, smartphone games are the ones I want to expand the most."

If they keep up with their current mentality of using their mobile games to get Nintendo franchises more public exposure, then it shouldn't be a bad idea. Does feel weird though that they decided to back that recent new mobile IP Dragalia Lost though.

>>14726725

>As long as Miyamoto isn't on the comittee (He will be). I'm tired of Shigeru "We can't make the game if it doesn't reinvent the wheel" Miyamoto keeping franchises dormant.

I'm sick of that hypocritical logic for years, it basically Miyamoto's way of saying unless it makes fuckloads of cash initially regardless of innovation (Eg: NSMB games) then that series struggles to get regular sequels anytime soon regardless of how many years/decades later while ignoring factors like if the most recent game had terrible sales do to it being a low quality game (Star Fox Zero).

Hopefully having a young guy in charge can help convince them with "Hey, it's been decades since this X series had a new game! Our current audience is bigger than ever, lets publish a new one!''

>>14727433

>You're dead

I fucking wish m8

>>Zyngatendo

watch it crash and burn

Well this thread went to total shit.

>>14727521

They aren't the majority, en-fact they are a tiny minority, the only reason there appear to be so many is who else would take a photo posing with a fucking console?

>>14726739

I don't particularly remember much of anything being cut, although I can't really confirm it for Tiger Mask since I can't say to have rewatched it and my memory isn't perfect so I can't claim to actually remember any blatant instances of something being cut. There were some weird changes like Captain Tsubasa being Captain Magid. Most of the anime played was on this channel called Space Toon and they had this guy and his family do arabic intros and those were pretty sick at times.

As for censorship, I can only speak for Egypt but you usually have your Facebook saints post comedy gold like "The word Pikachu is code for Hail Lord Satan and Pokemon Go is symbolically turning you into mindless pagan zombies" and sometimes the official religious authority agrees, but it's Egypt so not many actually give a shit. I figure not many have the same level of reverence for Nintendo properties as the West or Japan but most of the parents I know leave the parenting up to their TVs and tablets/phones so I figure richer parents will leave it up to a Switch. Otherwise anything that anyone wants to play anyways is the latest iteration of fucking FIFAss so I don't know how well it'll do outside of children.

>>14727544

>Weird changes

Meant name changes.

>>14727548

>implying it's a good thing

I have lived to see arcades, Atari and Sega die, it doesn't make anything better.

>>14727552

Atari dying certainly made things better

>>14727562

Arcades too. And Sega is arguably better than ever.

>>14727564

Sega still make arcades and pachinko machine though, just not for gaijin.

>>14727528

This. They're like social media addicted women. They're virtue signaling their "geek chic" status.

>>14727539

Very nice image. It's not often I see one of these that isn't just a bunch of randomly colored images with a color filter over them.

>>14727552

As long as nintendo dies its fine.

Video games don't deserve to exist anymore.

>>14727544

>Egypt

Ayy

Fun fact: back during pokemania a systematic ban on pokemon took place across the middle east thanks to saudi arabia issuing a fatwa saying pokemon is haram, for featuring evolution, gambling and being a "zionist tool". If there's one arab country that censors the most it's fucking saudi arabia, compare the kind of content that shows on saudi channels to that on egyptian channels and you'll see what I mean.

Mario Escapes Into Tax Haven 2

>>14727712

Saudia arabia deserves a slow clap for being correct. Even if they are just giant hypocrites anyways.

>>14727600

Super fucked is a mercy. They are going to stop existing if they don't get off this path right now.

>>14728411

>Every male in the 25-34 demographic is a soyboy

You've convinced me.

>>14727664

I agree with the PS and XB but see Nintendo as a different beast as they don't focus on graphics or AAA multi-plats. Once in awhile they have a good idea with something like the Wiimote and PC gains from this as we get a new HID.

I'm happy for Nintendo to keep on keeping on until they have a decade without any innovative ideas, at that point they are no better than the rest and should burn.

>>14727775

Consoles are less customizable PCs these days (and with in-generation new models even that slowly goes away).

Back in the day, you shoved a disk/cartridge in the console and started playing. Now you shove in a disk, install for two hours, update for five more, then start playing and hope that the game actually runs on the console V1 despite being aimed at console V2 that came out three weeks ago.

They have no more justification for their existence, and neither do the people that still use them.

>>14728481

>implying its wrong

c'mon man, if i want to show something of course i'll put some of my stuff beside it to show off

Thanks by the way, i'm still working on some homework but i'll get to it when its done

>>14728411

Wow I never knew the Switch was so mysogyny.

Do Better!

>>14726700

>the fact that a lot of Nintendo's heads have ruined company and brought it to the current state it is in (Miyamoto, Sakurai, Sakamoto)

>Miyamoto, Sakurai, Sakamoto

>ruined company

>>14727408

>Hopefully a young guy in charge can help convince them

>Hey, this game has fallen out of public interest, and barely sold back when it was popular, how about we rehash it?

>someone posted this and didn't see any problem with this

>>14728575

>Miyamoto

Ruined Star Fox and Paper Mario, preventing another F-Zero from being made (along with probably a few dozen other series)

>Sakurai

Ruined Smash Bros., and so high on his own ego that he will not allow any else to take his place

>Sakamoto

Ruine Metroid

>>14728598

Oh by "Ruined company" you mean upset a couple of fanboys. You confused me for a second.

>>14728605

>upset a couple of fanboys

<Star Fox Zero is the worse selling game in the entire Star Fox

<Stick Star and Color Splash are universally considered the worst Paper Mario games in the series

<"Why would anyone EVER want another zero-g racing game?": https://archive.fo/whP6o

<Melee is still used at the fighting autist events called "tournaments" instead of dropping the game for the newest Smash

<Sakurai has been saying since Melee that he will not be making the next Smash Bros.

<Other M and Federation Force were outright failures, and the only "good" Metroid game to come out since 2007 was the result of shoahing a fan project

>>14728624

>Melee was a fluke and everyone involved admitted it.

https://archive.fo/lQhQt

<Looking back, nearly a decade on, Sakurai seems proud of Melee overall. "Melee is the sharpest game in the series," he wrote. "It's pretty speedy all around and asks a lot of your coordination skills. Fans of the first Smash Bros. got into it quickly, and it just felt really good to play."

<However, he has one particularly deep regret: the game's accessibility level. "I had created Smash Bros. to be my response to how hardcore-exclusive the fighting game genre had become over the years," Sakurai said. "But why did I target it so squarely toward people well-versed in videogames, then? That's why I tried to aim for more of a happy medium with Brawl's play balance. There are three Smash Bros. games out now, but even if I ever had a chance at another one, I doubt we'll ever see one that's as geared toward hardcore gamers as Melee was. Melee fans who played deep into the game without any problems might have trouble understanding this, but Melee was just too difficult."

>>14728634

You sure have proven they ruined the compan-

Oh wait. You didn't.

>ignoring all the other games Miyamoto and Sakamoto are producers on (not programmers, designer, directors btw)

>the result of shoahing a fan project

What the fuck am I reading?

>>14727753

>Saudia arabia deserves a slow clap for being correct

The show is japanese, calling it a zionist tool from israel is absurd. But that aside, they call anything they don't like "zionist" that it no longer has meaning even when it's true.

As always, wait for piracy.

It is always the best solution.

>>14728624

>sample

>>14727539

Considering Pokemon Go is basically dead I don't know how is he supposed to get Nintendo some profit, maybe re-develop the game from scratch?

>>14726670

>Bootleg Iwata

>Known for marketing

>Smartphones

Expect lots of suing and korean trash

>>14730075

So nothing new?

>>14728596

>someone posted this and didn't see any problem with this

How many people want a new F-Zero when GX never even sold over a million units?

How many people want a new Star Fox when the last one was poorly received due to many issues with it and thus lead to low sales? Even it's spinoff (Guard) was given more higher reviews.

How many times here have you seen someone here wanting random Nintendo game from decades ago to get a sequel or represented in Smash with a fighter?

The only problem here is you not understanding that a lot people out there (including here) want good sequels on current hardware regardless of the time span or low sales of the previous game. Look at examples like Kid Icarus or Punch Out getting unexpected revival sequels.

>>14730942

I didn't even know Zero got a spinoff game.

>>14728580

Too much sadism and cbt/castration, unfortunately.

>>14728643

There's a common belief that Samus Returns was only made after Nintendo shut down AM2R, when in fact it had been in development for over a year by that point.

>>14731092

>implying these aren't good things

>>14731010

That's because the spinoff was released simultaneously with Zero (and reuses some assets) and was basically seen as a incentive to pre-order Zero, because it was a download only release unless you brought the SF Zero "first print" edition which got you a physical copy of Guard (and a 2 disc SF themed steelbook case). Also having physical takes up less of the Wii U's limited hard drive space.

For comparison it seems to escaped controversy by being a good game, a good spinoff and being released at the same time as a "main game." Unlike Metroid Prime Federation Force which is hated by everyone for being a spin off released when the main series didn't look like it was getting any new games any time soon. Which is sad to realize that it probably would have been better received if only it had been revealed after Samus Returns/Prime 4 was announced last E3. No one hated Prime Pinball spinoff when the Metroid series was getting multiple games released in the mid 2000's.

>>14736355

>MercurySteam never had any plans to remake Metroid 2.

Their first pitch to Nintendo was a Fusion remake strangely enough. Strange as in wanting to remake a GBA game that doesn't really need a remake (apart from making it less linear) vs the GB Metroid that could use more of the post Super Metroid gameplay touches to improve it.

http://archive.is/JzJoh

>With all of Nintendo’s internal studios busy with other projects, Sakamoto needed to find a development team that could tackle his dream project. Fortunately, one studio had been pounding on Nintendo’s door with a Metroid pitch. After finishing work on a few Castlevania projects for Konami, the Madrid-based developer MercurySteam pitched Nintendo on the idea of remaking Metroid Fusion – the 2002 GBA title where Samus got infected with a parasitic organism. Sakamoto was impressed with the studio pitch and their love for Metroid. He told them no, they couldn’t remake Metroid Fusion…but he did need their help on another remake.

>>14736767

>sooner rather than later

I'd rather they wait right until every last shitty company is >50% mobile focused and then drop the hammer.

>>14736767

Considering they still tend more to making actual games I don't believe that. It's really worrying actually that the kiddie game platform ends up being one of the few with serious games instead of cinematic bullshit.

>>14726682

This. Looking up the exact exchange amount of 100 billion yen was pure 'tism. "Billion dollar industry" isn't something that needs to be translated otherwise.

>>14736908

Make the first panel the original, or change it to "imageboarder"

>>14736919

imageboarder is not the right word but I would hate to make it "anon's" or something instead, fug.

>>14736919

>>14736929

Have the original panel be "Normal person" and the panel with the guns/alcohol/figure say "Anons"

>>14737070

I like it since it's like a floating cock entering his mouth.

>>14727753

>being a zionist stooge

>calling a Japanese product a zionist tool

really activates the almonds

>>14726849

>giving a shit about shit korea

Every day that passes by I understand more why Japanese soldiers used their women for comfort.

>>14726802

t. butthurt shekelkike/sandkike

>>14726813

>indonesiaball

Your forced version of the polandball meme is 100% cancer, not to mention your we wuz caliphates and sheeeiiit tier sandnigger wannabes. Kill yourself.