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“We can already stifle creativity through the courts though?”
Shigeru Miyamoto comments on AI, says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction"
Submitted 2 months ago by reboot6675@sopuli.xyz to games@lemmy.world
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jmankman@lemmy.myserv.one 2 months ago
overload@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
PunchingWood@lemmy.world 2 months ago
More like if someone else does a better job, sue the living shit out of them.
TK420@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Refreshing a company is not jumping on the hype train
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Realistically they weren’t going to, were they?
They’re not a big tech company, not really, there’s no reason they would have the necessary compute to develop an AI in the first place so what they’re really announcing is that something that no one expected them to do is not going to happen.
In similarly news, Crayola are not going to develop an AI.
Grangle1@lemm.ee 2 months ago
That said, they’re not likely to license an already made AI for their projects either, which is also nice.
emuspawn@orbiting.observer 2 months ago
BetaBlake@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That direction is litigation via patent trolling
einlander@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They would, you can’t claim ownership of AI generated material in many places. So for such a litigant company AI is a no go.
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
First we have to figure out how that"online gaming" thing works, because we’re busy suing people.
f1error@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Shit on Nintendo being “behind the times” and patent litigation, but they are the console I always have the most fun with. I pick up my Switch everyday, the Xbox and PS grow dust. That’s just me, maybe I’m just too simple…
Jolteon@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I have no problem with them being behind the times, if they even are. What’s really annoying is suing people for downloading games that they don’t even sell anymore.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Or assuming people because they advertised their product for them. That one has never made sense.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Unfortunately the one behavior negates the other. Can I have fun with their products knowing that I could face legal action simply because I share my love of their games?
No sod that, I guess their games don’t get streamed then. There are plenty of companies that are happy about the free advertising, or at least don’t care either way.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Tbf the fact that it’s a portable probably helps, if only the competitors would release a proper portable instead of a streaming tablet…
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 months ago
Note that he didn’t say that Nintendo is going in a different direction.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He can’t decide that and is purely speaking from a perspective of a (legendary) game dev with more experience than some studios have as a whole. He’s been longer in the game than almost anyone else for better or worse.
mhague@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re still figuring out the internet
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Its Nintendo. They are always a decade behind on new technology.
Come 2032 or so they are going to be all about how great this technology that lets them create custom VAs for all their characters (so they never have another Marinet situation) is amazing.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They are not behind. Since they are not trying to catch up with Sony or MS. They purposely choose to use cheaper hardware and go a different direction. That’s not the same as being behind.
It’s their Blue Ocean strategy. They don’t want to compete directly against Sony and a trillion dollar company called Microsoft. Since the last time they did that it almost took the company under. They make a profit on each Switch sale since the first one was sold and they offer an entirely different gaming catalog that targets a different audience.
anlumo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nintendo used to be ahead of the curve with the N64, but you’re right that they’ve been trailing behind for a while now. The switch still uses the Nvidia Tegra X1 CPU/GPU, which was released in 2015.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I would actually very much argue that the N64 is when they “stopped trying” as it were.
Sony (which is a can of worms on its own), Sega, and even frigging Atari realized that CD-ROM was “the future”. Nintendo… let’s skip the Sony aspect and just say they chose not to.
The end result is that everyone else had 700 MB-ish to use for resources and were working on finding ways to hide the load times (RIP Shang Tsung). Nintendo continued to use a cartridge that could hold 4-12 and later 32 and 64 MB. This meant dialogue and cutscenes remained almost non-existent and texture work was similarly VERY limited in favor of solid colors.
Its Nintendo and most of The Internet are still the kids on the playground looking to beat up the Sega kids so we mostly talk about the good parts of those consoles going forward. But it is always fun to watch one of the Influencers have that “So… outside of like four games the N64 REALLY sucked, huh? BUT THOSE FOUR GAMES ARE THE GREATEST GAMES TO EVER EXIST AND I STILL LOVE YOU MIYAMOTO SAN!!!”. Whereas we all almost universally agree “The Playstation had an amazing library… and most of them look like someone sharted on the screen” because… 700 MB is still not a lot for texture and audio work. And “Oh yeah. The Sega Saturn existed… That was the tower of power, right?”
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Do you mean the voice of Mario…?
I do not want an AI voice to puppet his corpse for the next 150 years.
trucy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Could they go in a direction with good hardware and better games?
MSids@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Over the years I’ve gotten rid of every console except for my Nintendo consoles. Sure their hardware is not cutting edge but I don’t really care because I always enjoy myself when I play my Nintendo consoles.
If you want the 202[3/4/5] version of COD at 4k 60fps then an Xbox is probably more suited to you. Nintendo just isn’t going after that segment. The variety is a good thing.
trucy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Variety? From the company rereleasing the same platformer year after year?
Num10ck@lemmy.world 2 months ago
who would you say has made better games than Nintendo? cuz if you go by sales numbers or ratings, you might consider shutting tf up
trucy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Minecraft and Tetris aren’t made by nintendo.
JamesFire@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If I wanted good hardware I’d build a PC. Which I did.
If I wanted good games, I’d build a PC, buy a switch, and sail the seas for anything those can’t run natively that I actually want to play. Which I did.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 months ago
woot
mechoman444@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This reminds me of when IBM rejected the idea of the internet.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
This comment reminds me of when Bitcoin became the world’s dominant currency.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
That’s only was possible because of the invention of Fusion power.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That direction is straight toward the courthouse.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Well you did think about Mario that one time so surely they have a case.
Nintendo probably think breathing within 500 km of one of their products constitutes copyright violation.
NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You typed his name. We’ll see you in court, asshole
- Nintendo
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean the way some companies have been using AI they’ll be headed that way anyway.