Nintendic reports: When the President of Nintendo over in Japan speaks, the world listens, and 48-year-old Satoru Iwata has just held a very open interview in which he talks about the company as a whole, Wii, Nintendo DS and various other subjects, including that of the online Wi-Fi Connection that has already been a massive success.
Thanks to the advent of both the Nintendo DS and Wii, the former bringing gaming otaku out-doors and the latter bringing families together and off the sofa, encouraging them to be more active, the image of games rotting the mind and body has been significantly altered. That is largely thanks to the sterling efforts of Satoru Iwata-san, who many believe 'saved' Nintendo after Hiroshi Yamauchi stepped down. Iwata states that he believes both platforms have been so successful due to the aim of expanding the target audience over the past few years, following the decline in traditional gamers. According to Iwata, the reason for the decline was due to negative images being portrayed of gaming, with people beginning to feel it impacted on study and helped increase crime. Therefore, Nintendo's main objective was to start changing that with the DS's style. It also helped that user feedback helped Nintendo design the DS to make it more like what people really wanted, in other words something that was not too hard to use and was not too time consuming. This does not mean Nintendo is now resting on its laurels, though, with Iwata stating that the Kyoto Company is currently beavering away, trying to think how it could possibly out-do the DS and Wii.
Nintendo made a significant move by issuing a DMCA notice to take down more than 8,500 clones of the popular Switch emulator, Yuzu.
The more they try to stop it, the more publicity it gets. The fact is that Yuzu will forever live on torrent and other sites. Nintendo is fighting an uphill battle.
There is nothing stopping these people from working on Yuzu clones and sharing them on torrent sites. Nintendo or anyone else cannot do shit about torrents or usenet.
lol Nintendo keep fighting this but it never ends. Why do they feel the need to persist? I guess they are in too deep now they have to
Super Mario 64 DS was offered as a launch title for the Nintendo DS, a remake of the classic platform game with a few original tricks.
Needs more appreciation. I never had an N64 so this was what I played. Sure the Yoshi hat mechanic at first is a slog but you unlock Mario and the others for real and then it takes off. Personally I never had an issue with the controls. Can't forget the mini games and the 4 player rumble over download play.
Indeed, as stated in the article there were tonnes of control options and very much a 'take whatever you like, leave the rest' attitude to most of the game's extras.
Space opera fans deserve a chance to experience the vastness of Infinite Space, and Sega needs to make up for its mistake.
I still go back to Infinite Space from time to time. Probably the most underrated game I ever played.
