Iwatas concerns about quality games in future

Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata recently talked about concerns of game developing in future.

Now to talk again about social network games and mobile gaming, the publishers are not interested about the quality of games they will deliver to markets.
Nintendo/PS/Microsoft etc. gaming only platform manufacturers do care, but Iwaka is concerned the rising of social network games and smartphone apps.

"Their goal is just to gather as much software as possible, because quantity is what makes the money flow - the value of videogame software does not matter to them." With value the quality would increase.

A few games do become mega-hits, but it's not easy. With such competition, even being noticed is extremely difficult - huge investments promise nothing. Now, consider this. The corresponding number of games available to download from app sites is in the tens of thousands. Game deveploment is drowning.

 
"Why is this happening? To answer, it's necessary to understand two very different ways of looking at our business, and these approaches focus on a single question. Is maintaining high value games a top priority, or not?"

Ultimate thought Iwata described what, in his mind, was an effective solution to the challenge in a single word: "Innovation."

I don't think the problem is as big as Iwata describes it, but it can take down qualitity at least in future.

5 Facts you may didn't know about Pac-Man

There are interesting articles recently made about Pac-Man, there's few things you may did not know about it.
You can see the article at http://www.cnbc.com/id/41888021/

Here's small flash version you can play!

Portal 2 release in April

Valve's Managing Director Gabe Newell announced that Portal 2 is "finished", confirming that the often delayed first-person puzzler will be ready for release in April.

"It's pretty much put to bed and we're just waiting for final approvals and to get the discs manufactured."

I'm really interested about Portal 2, as the first one was great. Portal 2 has been hyped and there should be lots of new innovative stuff, also Gabe himself said it's Portal 2 that he is most excited about.

Guild Wars 2

Guild Wars 2 is one game I have high hopes on!
They haven't announced the release date, but it is around 2011-2012. As long as they do it properly and it meets with the expectations they've created so far, I can wait easily.
Check site at http://www.guildwars2.com/en/

For those who don't know, Guild Wars is succesful mmorpg, even though it didn't grow as much as some other mmorpgs, it has still decent sized loyal fanbase.

So when it comes to Guild Wars 2,  I have high hopes that it may become best mmorpg so far (WoW killer!).
Still, you have to remeber there's much to do in developing and I hope they will take the time to come up with quality game.

They have published lot of info about the game and they have certainly very cool and unique design manifest.
You should see the video about design http://www.guildwars2.com/en/media/videos/

I like the way developers emphasize they wish "to avoid forcing players into the grind-based gameplay that too often accompanies a high level cap."

They have very good points about mmo games today and they know what players want.
So, if they can execute the manifesto properly, it will be awesome game.

- Noock