Nintendo Says “No No No” to MMOS
By Stephany on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 at 1:52 PM PST In Game Companies, Game Consoles, Game Platforms, Gamer Life, Games, Games Industry, Nintendo, Portable
A recent interview with Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata has dashed the hopes and dreams of Nintendo fanboys everywhere when he stated that the gaming giant has zero interest in the MMO market.
Iwata said that in order for Nintendo to get involved with an MMO, the game would have to appeal to everyone that falls in the age group of ‘5 to 95′. That broad spectrum of ages might also explain away the reason Square Enix has no desire to port Final Fantasy XI to the Wii. It just would not fit the demographic apparently.
Iwata also went on to say the Mii customization system is “as complicated as they want to make an interface” for the present time, and they have no interest in competing with the virtual world services on the market right now. If in the future they changed their minds, they would have to “focus on doing things that nobody else would do … We’d be sure to make it something that nobody would call it a product similar to another company’s offering.” This was stating even with the stories about companies developing an MMO for the DS, floating across cyberspace.
I guess Nintendo has more important things on their mind right now, and they make enough money off console and handheld games to keep them rolling in the dough for years to come, therefore an MMO from Nintendo would just make them look a bit greedy. That being said, how many of you out there would just absolutely love to the play a Mario or Zelda MMO?
Thanks: Massively.com
Good on ya Nintendo. MMO’s would be really, really not what Nintendo is all about. I think this occured with runescape once, but it was shot down too.
think about a mario MMO where you live in the mushroom kingdom! You can help do the plumbing, save a mushroom in distress,go on a journey to find the lost treasure of yoshi island or just chill in castle taking care of the royal royalties.?.. ;b NAH !!!
Some big name title has to fill the void left by WOW, I say that since many players are leaving WOW with the new expansion WOTLK coming out, in order to play
ANYTHING other than wow, the only reason wow stays up so high is because the games coming out or of poor make and not original content, wow clones. The ones that are not are either vaporware or niche fillers. If The legend of Zelda MMORPG is not ready by the summer of 2011 then it is a failure of Nintendo to do what they Obviously should have.