Street Fighter II creator, Yoshiki Okamoto, has spoken of the dominance of the Nintendo DS and has warned Nintendo that they could be heading for a ‘crash of epic proportions’, similar to the market crash that Atari suffered and never recovered from.
The problem rests in Nintendo’s first party software domination across the Nintendo DS and the Wii. Okamoto says "looking at the way things are right now, it is a fact that first-party Wii games are the only titles selling well. But if the first-party titles are selling, third-party games should be able to sell too, so long as their creators have a good working relationship with Nintendo. I think the problem is a lack of understanding between third-party developers, like us, and Nintendo, and this relationship needs to improve for the games to improve. "
Okamoto is disappointed with the flow of low quality titles hitting the Nintendo DS and the many imitation titles, such as the copy-cat versions of Brain Training, that are polluting our gaming collections.
"All sorts of companies that have never made games before are getting involved. I mean, the cost of development is really next to nothing. And what about this flood of 'brain training' games? Can they really keep that up?” Gamers have been seeing an extremely high number of ‘non-games’ of late, which has turned into a new genre itself. Titles such as ‘Parent Training and Cooking Training’ have all followed in the ways of Brain Training in the hope of riding it’s success but according to Okamoto these will lead to Nintendo’s downfall.
Could high number of less than average games on the Wii and DS lead to Nintendo’s downfall?
