Today on Headline RePLAY: The games that Nintendo’s
legendary designer wants to see made, Sony and Microsoft’s “biggest mistake”
and Penny Arcade is selling out to its audience.
It’s not a sign of active development, but Shigeru Miyamoto
wants to see Metroid and Star Fox games on the Wii U.
“With Metroid it’s very easy to imagine some interesting
implementation for Wii U,” Miyamoto told IGN. “I think that having another
screen with the gyro built in really gives you a lot of interesting
opportunities for development, and we can bring a lot of our games to life in a
completely unique way with that.
“I feel like the possibilities of the GamePad for
Metroid could be really fantastic,” he continued. “There’s certainly a lot that
you could do there for that game.”
What franchise does Miyamoto really want to “personally”
see on the Wii U? Star Fox.
|Source: IGN
The “biggest mistake” that Sony and Microsoft ever
made was making the current console generation “way too long”, says
Square-Enix.
“We have Sony and Microsoft talking about this
generation lasting 7, 8, 9, or even 10 years and it’s the biggest mistake they’ve
ever made,” Square-Enix worldwide technology director Julien Merceron told
GamesIndustry International.
“This generation has been way too long, and I say
this because you have a lot of developers that work on a new platform, and
perhaps will not succeed, so they will wait for the next generation, and will
jump on that platform,” he explained. “You could not do that with this
generation though. So these developers went elsewhere to see if the grass was
greener.
But the current-gen was still ongoing, and there
were no other consoles to move to, so developers found other platforms.
“They found web browsers, they found iOS, they
found other things and a lot of them won’t come back to hardware platforms,”
said Merceron. “So you could look at it that thanks to Microsoft and Sony and
the length of this generation, it helped the emergence of other platforms and
helped them get strong before the next hardware comes out.”
Merceron believes that Sony and Microsoft need to
tackle the next console generation in a “different way.”
“I agree that they will have to look at the market
in a different way,” said Merceron. “I think they understand what is happening
these days and I think they understand that the current generation has actually
been too long.”
|Source: GamesIndustry International
Now for something totally different: Penny Arcade
wants crowdfunding to remove ads from their site, and is asking the public for
$250,000 via Kickstarter to do it.
The “Penny Arcade Sells Out” project is based on
the simple premise that as long as the $250,000 annual goal is met, the “leaderboard”
ad is removed from the site. For the price of $525,000, all ads would be
removed.
The project reads:
Would scouring ads from Penny Arcade, with
everything that entails, be something you’d be willing to reach into your
pocket for? The more we considered it, the more we agreed it might just be. Not
only would you no longer have to look at advertising when browsing Penny
Arcade, but not having ads would create a chain reaction that would lead to a
bunch of other interesting stuff. Without the almighty “pageview” to consider,
why not populate the RSS with full comics and posts? Why not enable and even
courage apps, first and third party, for people to read it however they damn
well please?
|Source: Kickstarter
