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Title: Nintendo making mobile games was inevitable, and it's good news for everyone Post by: HCK on March 21, 2015, 09:00:12 pm Nintendo making mobile games was inevitable, and it's good news for everyone
<article> <section class="page"> <p> For players of all stripes, the name Nintendo is synonymous with gaming. But for die-hard enthusiasts—at least, the ones not blinded by nostalgia—it’s a name also associated with stubbornness, and a slowness to adapt to market changes and emerging trends.</p><p> Like when Nintendo opted not to embrace CD-ROMs in the mid-90s, instead sticking with expensive-to-produce, space-limited cartridges for the Nintendo 64. That allowed the PlayStation to take over the market, but of course, there’s an extensive backstory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNES-CD) to that whole fiasco. Nintendo has also run into issues with its chilly relationships with third-party developers, its frustratingly slow embrace of online gaming, and its insistence on using aging tech to power recent hardware.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2899635/nintendo-making-mobile-games-was-inevitable-and-its-good-news-for-everyone.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Nintendo making mobile games was inevitable, and it's good news for everyone (http://www.macworld.com/article/2899635/nintendo-making-mobile-games-was-inevitable-and-its-good-news-for-everyone.html#tk.rss_all) |