Nintendo are back?
The BBC report that Nintendo profits are up following a 90% sales increase. That’s a hell of a sales increase! This is all down the the DS which is popular with girls and older users and the success of the Wii which has suprised a lot of people. I think that this is brilliant news, Nintendo have (in my opinion) always been innovators in the games industry but they have been suffering at the hands of and Sony and Microsoft until recently. Their approach with the DS and the Wii has been to try and create a social atomosphere around gaming rather than the lonely introverted worlds of so many games. This has brought them a lot of success rencently basically because it’s fun and everyone can have a go, you no longer need to know the intricacies of WASD or circle strafing, you can just rely on swing the controller like a tennis racket.
I’d like to think that this means that developers and other companies follow suite and give people some more fun and social games to ensure that we can all play together - I wonder how many relationships end each year due to one or the other playing games non stop? Or how many children don’t see the outside? Some of the sports games make you want to go and do the sport for real and that can never be a bad thing. I’m waiting for the fencing game…
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