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Some game developers unhappy with Apple, Nintendo

CNN: Some of the video game industry's most visible veterans took to their pulpits this week at the Game Developers Conference to denounce practices by Apple or Nintendo.

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Titanz5578d ago

Nintendo does need to develop a better relationship with the smaller development teams.

Troll-without-Bridge5578d ago

Seems like Apple is running developers into the ground.

kneon5578d ago

This was inevitable, Apple have made consumers come to think that mobile games are only worth at most a dollar or two, at that price you need to sell quite a lot of games, or make a really simple game that is cheap to create.

And when your app is buried in a sea of crap apps it's hard to get noticed. There may be 350,000 apps on the app store but if you remove the crap and all the clones you're probably left with only a few percent of those apps that are worth looking at.

Ju5578d ago

Count the real "companies" surviving the app store market. I mean, those who employ more then 2.

Not a whole lot.

It is nice for people who have ideas and can program. But you cannot build a business on it. I guess for 2-3 people companies you can probably make a living. If you have the top sellers and got in early maybe you can even get rich.

But to run a complete business, this platform will not be the right one. As soon as you make money to grow, you want to expand beyond an app store. What does apple (or google, for that matter) offer in that regards? Pretty much nothing.

It makes money for Apple due to numbers and small developers. But nothing in between.

That is alright - as long as the traditional market can survive. I would hate to see the "real" studios to fail because we get swamped with low price crap games.

Some of them are really nice, but I want some real games, too, at times.

Ddouble5578d ago

"At least Nintendo had the courtesy to tell you upfront that you were going to be screwed."

Strong words there

Masterchef20075578d ago

You have to take in consideration that Nintendo makes a ton of money off their first party games. Which is why they are not very friendly with 3rd party devs.

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U.S. patent examiner rejects Nintendo’s summoning characters patent as obvious: non-final ruling

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).

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Relientk7772d ago (Edited 72d ago )

Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.

PRIMORDUS71d ago (Edited 71d ago )

Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

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Nintendo Completes Share Repurchase and Sets Price for Secondary Offering

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

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Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.

Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.

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Deathdeliverer97d ago

Well dayum lol. Old agent orange pissing off every industry and nation.

0hMyGandhi96d ago

The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.

AuraAbjure96d ago (Edited 96d ago )

Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.

EveryPlatformGamer97d ago

LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.

-Foxtrot96d ago

That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.

It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.

Outside_ofthe_Box96d ago (Edited 96d ago )

A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.

People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers

Inverno96d ago

The people should sue these companies for having to over pay cause of these tariffs.

Eonjay96d ago

Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.

Inverno95d ago

I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.

Killer2020UK95d ago

The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷‍♂️

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