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Shit on Nintendo being “behind the times” and patent litigation, but they are the console I always have the most fun with. I pick up my Switch everyday, the Xbox and PS grow dust. That’s just me, maybe I’m just too simple…
Unfortunately the one behavior negates the other. How can I have fun with their products knowing that I could face legal action simply because I share my love of their games?
No sod that, I guess their games don’t get streamed then. There are plenty of companies that are happy about the free advertising, or at least don’t care either way.
I have no problem with them being behind the times, if they even are. What’s really annoying is suing people for downloading games that they don’t even sell anymore.
Or suing people because they advertised their product for them. That one has never made sense.
They wouldn’t, you can’t claim ownership of AI generated material in many places. So for such a litigant company AI is a no go.
That direction is litigation via patent trolling
They’re still figuring out the internet
“We can already stifle creativity through the courts though?”
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
More like if someone else does a better job, sue the living shit out of them.
That direction is straight toward the courthouse.
Well you did think about Mario that one time so surely they have a case.
Nintendo probably think breathing within 500 km of one of their products constitutes copyright violation.
You typed his name. We’ll see you in court, asshole
- Nintendo
I mean the way some companies have been using AI they’ll be headed that way anyway.
Refreshing a company is not jumping on the hype train
Realistically they weren’t going to, were they?
They’re not a big tech company, not really, there’s no reason they would have the necessary compute to develop an AI in the first place so what they’re really announcing is that something that no one expected them to do is not going to happen.
In similarly news, Crayola are not going to develop an AI.
That said, they’re not likely to license an already made AI for their projects either, which is also nice.
I didn’t really expect them to do that either, because what would it do?
The reason companies like Google are developing an AI is because they have a lot of processor capacity anyway, so they can make use of it and they have a broad enough product catalog that it fits with their current offerings.
Note that he didn’t say that Nintendo is going in a different direction.
He can’t decide that and is purely speaking from a perspective of a (legendary) game dev with more experience than some studios have as a whole. He’s been longer in the game than almost anyone else for better or worse.
Could they go in a direction with good hardware and better games?
If I wanted good hardware I’d build a PC. Which I did.
If I wanted good games, I’d build a PC, buy a switch, and sail the seas for anything those can’t run natively that I actually want to play. Which I did.
Over the years I’ve gotten rid of every console except for my Nintendo consoles. Sure their hardware is not cutting edge but I don’t really care because I always enjoy myself when I play my Nintendo consoles.
If you want the 202[3/4/5] version of COD at 4k 60fps then an Xbox is probably more suited to you. Nintendo just isn’t going after that segment. The variety is a good thing.
who would you say has made better games than Nintendo? cuz if you go by sales numbers or ratings, you might consider shutting tf up
This reminds me of when IBM rejected the idea of the internet.
This comment reminds me of when Bitcoin became the world’s dominant currency.
That’s only was possible because of the invention of Fusion power.
Its Nintendo. They are always a decade behind on new technology.
Come 2032 or so they are going to be all about how great this technology that lets them create custom VAs for all their characters (so they never have another Marinet situation) is amazing.
They are not behind. Since they are not trying to catch up with Sony or MS. They purposely choose to use cheaper hardware and go a different direction. That’s not the same as being behind.
It’s their Blue Ocean strategy. They don’t want to compete directly against Sony and a trillion dollar company called Microsoft. Since the last time they did that it almost took the company under. They make a profit on each Switch sale since the first one was sold and they offer an entirely different gaming catalog that targets a different audience.
Nintendo used to be ahead of the curve with the N64, but you’re right that they’ve been trailing behind for a while now. The Switch still uses the Nvidia Tegra X1 CPU/GPU, which was released in 2015.
Do you mean the voice of Mario…?
I do not want an AI voice to puppet his corpse for the next 150 years.
