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EA founder: Nintendo put gaming in the dark ages
Posted on Wednesday, 13 July 2011 by Speed, source: VentureBeat
Talk about a bold statement!
EA and Digital Chocolate founder Trip Hawkins has said at the GamesBeat 2011 conference in San Francisco that ever since Nintendo and other big companies came in with software licensing, the gaming industry has been in the dark ages.
To be honest: if the current crop of facebook games is all the creativity Mr. Hawkins wants, then I can do with a little less...
EA and Digital Chocolate founder Trip Hawkins has said at the GamesBeat 2011 conference in San Francisco that ever since Nintendo and other big companies came in with software licensing, the gaming industry has been in the dark ages.
“I think we actually had our golden age when game development was using floppy disks and it was an open free platform when we could all make games like we wanted to make,” said Hawkins. ”Nintendo came along and software licensing came in and we’ve been in a dark age since then.
“How many great companies have been built on the world-wide web, which is an open platform. The list just goes on and on, and Nintendo’s been doing things this way for 25 years and there are no great companies that have been built on the back of Nintendo.”
According to Hawkins, backing from companies like Nintendo are currently the only way for developers to be innovative, while social and web gaming firms don't need that backing to be creative and succesful.“How many great companies have been built on the world-wide web, which is an open platform. The list just goes on and on, and Nintendo’s been doing things this way for 25 years and there are no great companies that have been built on the back of Nintendo.”
To be honest: if the current crop of facebook games is all the creativity Mr. Hawkins wants, then I can do with a little less...
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