The game industry has gone through an interesting transformation in the last few years. Due to all of the drama with Dyak it brought out a good point.
Who was right about the future of game?
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/interview/14050
NWR: As you mentioned before we started, there are some people who still harbor animosity towards Silicon Knights for leaving Nintendo. We know it was a mutual decision, which is what you said at the time, but there are still some things about it that I have never understood and I wanted to see if maybe we can clear it up. I know theres some parts of it that you cant talk about but
We interviewed you at E3 2003 about Twin Snakes and at the time you said this, "When you think about Silicon Knights and you think about Nintendo, if youre going to think about us as a separate entity or a traditional second party youre probably going to be wrong on most accounts. We highly collaborate with EAD all the time and in many senses were inseparable. I like to consider us basically a team thats inside Nintendo that isnt located at NCL." So what I want to ask you about is, how did you get from that point to splitting with Nintendo about a year later? What happened in that time that so drastically changed your relationship?
Dyack: Well, I guess, thinking that the relationship drastically changed is probably the point of misconception. And so when I said that, and I think it was very, very true, were very collaborative when work together with any of our partners. We wereI was exceedingly close to Miyamoto-san and Iwata-san. Iwata-san was the first person to ever visit Silicon Knights from Japan, before he was President [of Nintendo Co. Ltd.]. And so our relationship was much stronger than most developers outside of Nintendo would even have with Nintendo. If that, you know, hopefully that makes sense as I said it. And we saw eye-to-eye on so many things. It was really, we were really close. So the way we functioned, is we considered us, ourselves, part of Nintendo whole, and thats, that was our modus operandi. And that is what I think that statement came from. And then going from that, that really never changed.
The point where we decided to break off is Nintendo really had a belief in the way they were going, you know, with the Wii, and we didnt disagree that that was a great direction to go in.
History has Nintendo going on to sell over 100mill Wiis, and Dyak trying to ask for donations to make games.
This has Huge implications for system wars becasue the same argument is going on today. All Nintendo needs to do is get Istore/droid types APPs running on the WIIU
Nintendo is trying to modify its game consoles so customers can use smartphone applications on them, as the struggling Japanese company aims to return to profitability.
The Japan Times reported Monday that anonymous company sources revealed the console maker is betting on third-party smartphone apps to spur device sales. This, in turn, will lead to a growth in popular game titles on its platform, it added.
Nintendo will also focus on developing new software internally, the sources said.
http://www.zdnet.com/nintendo-taps-smartphone-apps-to-increase-console-sales-7000014929/
along with a wii sports game and suddenly the casuals are back. Also keep in mind that every one who abandoned Nintendo when they went blue oceamn has failed
Who was right?
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