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Nintendo Doesn't Believe In Online Gaming







Nintendo Doesn't Believe In Online
Gaming

Nintendo Doesn't Believe In Online
Gaming
07/07/2004 12:44 PM

While Microsoft and Sony seem to be betting big dollars on the rise of online gaming from their console systems, Nintendo seems to think they're throwing money away. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata was quoted as saying, "cust omers do not want online games." While I've been a bit skeptical about the space in the past, the growing success of things like Xbox Live suggests that I (and Satoru Iwata) may have written off the space way too quickly. In my defense, my thoughts on the matter came before broadband was so common and before there was any evidence either way. I still don't think all games will go online, but there very clearly is a large and growing market for console-based online games -- and to completely deny that with all of the existing evidence suggests Nintendo has their head in the sand.




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