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[Raiden]

This idea worked so well for Gizmondo

Edited by Ryudo, 21 January 2014 - 02:35 AM.

[Akazury]

I've slept on it a night but I have to say that if this was the case I wouldn't bother with Nintendo anymore. When I buy a console or a game I don't want to be limited in my activities. I don't want an 'incomplete' console for €99 and then having to pay another €200 just so I can play normally, the same with games.

The ad thing works, but it works on mobiles and why. On my iPad I don't mind ads during my play session, as it is only 5-10 minutes long. Because these are so short I don't bother with getting the full game as the ads are just there in the bottom and don't intterupt my game. An console is designed for long play session, this would mean that during my 4 hour play session I would get in total 12 ads of 30s to a minute long. Not only does it break your sense of emerging but that wait time is also deadly in multiplayergames like CoD. I'd get increasingly annoyed up to the point I'd drop the system and I think most of the (cassual)gamers would feel the same.

[Nintyfan86]

I've slept on it a night but I have to say that if this was the case I wouldn't bother with Nintendo anymore. When I buy a console or a game I don't want to be limited in my activities. I don't want an 'incomplete' console for €99 and then having to pay another €200 just so I can play normally, the same with games.

The ad thing works, but it works on mobiles and why. On my iPad I don't mind ads during my play session, as it is only 5-10 minutes long. Because these are so short I don't bother with getting the full game as the ads are just there in the bottom and don't intterupt my game. An console is designed for long play session, this would mean that during my 4 hour play session I would get in total 12 ads of 30s to a minute long. Not only does it break your sense of emerging but that wait time is also deadly in multiplayergames like CoD. I'd get increasingly annoyed up to the point I'd drop the system and I think most of the (cassual)gamers would feel the same.

This makes sense-presuming it was done like that. I would hope that there would be an annoying, yet unobtrusive, bar across the bottom of the screen with ads, and a dedicated section on the homepage. Almost newspaper style. Something annoying enough to make people like us want to buy in, yet not so bad for the impulse crowd (I refuse to play those phone games-I have not tried one yet that was not concentrated garbage).

 

The market appears to be going in that direction, at least substantially enough to where an expensive home console will be back to a core fanbase (think gen 6). 

 

Nintendo is going to have to do something radical to compete for that core market at this point (the steps are listed elsewhere). I cannot think of a better way than for a low cost value proposition, or mass market trojan horse to earn revenue without actually needing to make sales.