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Nintendo says America more unique with gaming, to launch WiiWare

chautemoc | 5 days 7 hours ago | Industry News | Wii 
Nintendo game designer Shigeru Miyamoto feels America is a greater source of unique video game products than his native Japan. In an interview with Wired, he states:

"In Japan, the technology required to create videogames tends to be concentrated in the bigger corporations."

Because of this, companies rarely take risks, which is just one of the reasons Nintendo is excited about turning things around with Wii Ware, which will allow essentially anyone to develop games and get them out in the public.
With WiiWare, Nintendo is attempting to flip the equation. By opening the service to even the smallest indie designers, the company hopes to tap the talents of the world's brightest gamemakers and snag brilliant new ideas for its popular Wii console. If the company finds the next little thing that blows up big -- like 2007's sleeper hit Portal, which got its start as an undergraduate project -- Nintendo will benefit from both the sales and the critical buzz. And it will do so with a minimal investment.
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    Akira_EX | 5 days 7 hours ago | reply
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    The difference with America, says Miyamoto, is its thriving garage-games movement. "Here in the United States, you have these independent developers who have managed to get the skills and the training and the development, and also have managed to get access to the technology and the hardware needed to develop it," he says. "They're able to let their own personality and their own kind of unique interests really flourish in the games that they're creating."
    Only individual developers, not American/Western developers as a whole. You know, the ones NOT concerned with making just FPSs.
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    kik36 | 4 days 12 hours ago | reply
    I think the big corporations are afraid to take risks regardless of the country they are in......when you got a cash cow, you gotta milk that sucker dry!!!!

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