Au comptoir du (insert) coin : vos jeux du moment

[pippoletsu]

Trop de haine.
Je passe à persona 4.
Merci Hobesse de m'avoir mis l'œil.

[Ashura]

Ca m'étonne qu'avec ton expérience des RPG tu fasses encore cette erreur de débutant de ne pas sauvegarder au pire toutes les heures Il m'est arrivé ce genre de merde une fois, deux peut-être, j'ai vite appris la leçon.

[Alphonse]

Conférence investisseurs très intéressante avec Iwata.

1) Sur de possibles nouveaux business models : il ne ferme plus la porte à l'abonnement, le free to play, etc(mini révolution)

Also, as you pointed out, we think that digital distribution of packaged software is only the first step in expanding our digital business. We will not simply change our existing packaged software distribution channel. Rather, we might have many other types of business models in addition to packaged software. For example, we might see more games that are similar to free-to-play games, games that cost much less or games that require a monthly subscription fee. Digitalization allows for greater flexibility, whereby having more ways to make payments, both software developers and consumers have more options. And Nintendo 3DS and Wii U have flexible systems to handle such trends, so it is now a question of putting these ideas into action. I can definitely say that Nintendo will make new offers that go well beyond simply replacing packaged software with digital software.

2) Le cloud gaming? Non

On the other hand, I don't think that our games, particularly the types that have strict requirements in terms of real-time responsiveness, can offer high-quality services using cloud gaming technology because of unavoidable network latency, which I mentioned last time. We will of course continue to see how this technology develops, but in order to decide whether cloud gaming is something that we should be interested in, we will need to closely follow the changes in technology and also the business environment. However, at this point in time, I do not think that acquiring a cloud gaming company will in any way improve our performance, so we are not moving in that direction.

3) Le responsable International de Nintendo désormais directement sous la direction d'Iwata

I decided to refer to our plan to place our overseas operations under my direct control here because, in evaluating the notice regarding changes of directors, I thought that you might wonder who will replace the retiring general manager of the International Division and who will supervise our business in the U.S. after Mr. Kimishima, current chairperson and CEO of Nintendo of America Inc., comes back to Japan to replace Mr. Mori as a managing director.

4) Comment Iwata prévoit un gros bénéf pour 2013? Baisse des coûts de production pour le hardware, une contribution plus importante des jeux first-party pour le software...  et le yen

Game hardware in general becomes less expensive to produce as we produce more, and the price of semiconductors goes down at a fairly constant rate each year. Moreover, we are estimating that first-party titles will take up a higher proportion of the total projected software sales than the previous year, as you pointed out. The reason why we made this assumption is that we now have a clearer idea of which first-party titles Nintendo can bring to market.

Also, the exchange rates, which were approximately 80 yen to the U.S. dollar and 100-105 yen to the Euro last fiscal year and are now 90 yen to the U.S. dollar and 120 yen to the Euro in our forecast for this fiscal year, have a major impact on our profitability overseas. Appreciation of the U.S. dollar, however, does not always have a positive impact on our financial results. For example, last fiscal year we bought more in dollars than we sold in dollars and the advantages of the stronger dollar/weaker yen did not quite show last year. But we predict that our North American operations will make a big improvement this year, so we are expecting to enjoy the advantages of a weaker yen.

5) Publicité : des spots courts pour faire connaître à la télé... et Nintendo Direct pour ceux là qui veulent

ely. As I explained in the presentation before, when people view Nintendo Direct on the Nintendo eShop, it is a very effective advertisement, but it has only minimal media costs. What I mean by "minimal" is that whenever one wants to transmit information on the Internet, one needs to pay a CDN (content delivery network), where one is charged according to the flow volume of data, so it can never be cost-free. However, this is much more inexpensive than media such as television or print media for which we need to pay advertising costs. What's more, people who are interested in our games watch our videos for as long as 15 or 30 minutes. We can divide advertising media into two types, namely, activities more geared towards gaining awareness, including TV commercials where we need to explain one message in 15 or 30 seconds, and those which can be used to attract potential consumers and have them understand a product to the point where they make the decision to purchase it. We will continue to utilize TV commercials to raise awareness of our products, but we are now in a position to use different methods for product understanding and buying motivation.

6) Pourquoi les jeux Wii U sont en retard? Parce que les jeux au lancement ont explosé les budgets/délais et drainé des développeurs initialement postés sur la deuxième vague de jeu (Pikmin etc)

The reason for the delayed release of our first-party titles was the fact that completing the games released at the same time as the launch of Wii U required more development resources than expected, so some staff members from development teams working on other titles had to help complete them. In short, the development teams of "Pikmin 3" and other future games were understaffed during that period. We do not simply have one easily identifiable bottleneck in software development. These days it is becoming increasingly challenging to determine the minimum development resources required for customer satisfaction.

7) Si les gros éditeurs boudent, Nintendo ira chercher des développeurs issus d'autres horizons (web, mobile, etc)

We made two announcements at GDC held in San Francisco in late March. One is "Nintendo Web Framework," which is the development environment used for "Wii Street U powered by Google" I mentioned earlier and some VOD services available for Wii U. The number of developers who can use versatile web technologies such as HTML5 and JavaScript is probably more than 100 times larger than that of the current software developers for dedicated gaming machines. We would like them to create software for our console. "Wii Street U powered by Google" was actually developed by a very compact team whose core members had never developed games for dedicated gaming machines. As I have already mentioned, the application has been and will be updated constantly by a small development team, which means that the development environment has enabled us to significantly reduce development challenges. Since our announcement at GDC, we have received inquiries about it from hundreds of new development companies and individuals. We believe there will be something novel and fascinating from their development work, thereby expanding the range of the software available for Wii U.

The other thing we announced was that developers can now use Unity, a cross-platform video game engine, for Wii U development, and we have started offering it to the developers. There are over a million Unity developers, including many in developing countries where the business of dedicated gaming machines is not prosperous. We would like to create opportunities for these developers to have their games available for Wii U. We hope that these actions to expand the range of software developers, in addition to the functions of Nintendo eShop and payments through e-money I mentioned before, will give us new business possibilities.

[Alphonse]

Et aussi des graphs en vrac

50% de part de marché sur le hardware de Janvier à Mars 2013 : Nintendo va mourir



3DS, console de l'année 2013. Ce line-up quand même...



Carton de Fire Emblem même en France



L'E3? Juste bon pour le marché américain.

[Ryle]

Pleins de recettes sur le "jeu" :
http://www.gourmetgaming.co.uk/

[Futch]

:laporte:

[pippoletsu]

Nintendo a déjà gagné.

[glen]

La suite d'Eternal darkness ? :happy:

http://uk.ign.com/videos/2013/05/03/shadow-of-the-eternals-teaser-trailer

[Hobes]

Lucid Games Ltd · 1 644 personnes aiment
So yeah, Mid-May will be interesting for the studio. We have some exciting updates coming. Stay tuned!

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=553655737990381&id=191831577506134

Les ex-développeurs de PGR annoncent que leur nouveau jeu sera présenté mi-mai... le 21 ? Avec la nouvelle console de Microsoft ? Project Gotham Racing 5 ?

[glen]

Bien bloqué sur Fez hier, on était partis pour juste tester, et pis 4 heures de jeu finalement.. très très bonnes premières impressions, c'est la pépite attendue :laporte:

[pippoletsu]

Happé par la hype :/

[glen]

Portal porté sur DS  :aulashmm:


avec même un éditeur de niveaux  :aulashmm:

[glen]

 :dlrperv:

[Ashura]

Ca fait quoi de donner de l'argent au seul mec du monde JV encore plus détestable que Bobby Kotick ? HEIN ? :aulasdoigt:

[Baron.de.Münchhausen]

Donner 15€ a monsieur Valve, qui en redonne un peu a monsieur Poisson ça doit faire moins mal au cul que de donner 10€ mensuellement a Microsoft, la compagnie la plus détestable au monde, pour avoir le droit de jouer en ligne ce qui est gratuit sur PC, PS3, DS, 3DS, Atari 2600 etc.

Enfin je crois.