[TheGameBusiness] Reggie Fils-Aimé: "Nintendo will never position itself as a direct competitor to PlayStation”

[Gizmo_Duck]

Nintendo games sell best on Nintendo hardware. And although there have been third-party hits on Switch, they're typically things like the LEGO games, Minecraft and Stardew Valley. The AAA big budget experiences that do well on PlayStation, Xbox and PC rarely enjoy much success on Nintendo hardware. And this is a topic Reggie Fils-Aimé has experience with during his time at Nintendo.

But Switch 2 is receiving a number of these games, including Assassin's Creed, Cyberpunk, Resident Evil, and Final Fantasy. Could things be different this time?

"I absolutely believe it could be," Fils-Aimé tells us. "But let's be clear, Nintendo, in my opinion, will never position themselves as a direct competitor to PlayStation. It's not in their DNA. It's not how they think about the business opportunity.

"Nintendo, as it thinks about its hardware, it doesn't think through how I'm going to get the absolute latest graphics chip, the latest processing chip, that's not how they think about it. But the chip set of Switch 2 can do quite a lot. And so, it's in the middleware, it's in the education to the third-party.
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"One of the things that always amazed me, Nintendo developers are so efficient with their games. Big games like Tears of the Kingdom, when you look at the size of the game, the actual file size is about half of what another developer would do. And it's just in the efficiency that Nintendo is able to get out of its systems, and that efficiency is what they need to share with third-party developers so that their best content… maybe not the latest version, but, you know, half a step behind, could make its way onto Switch 2 and be quite successful."

Nintendo needs competition

 

[Jaguar93]

Nintendo found a lane and is staying in it. Seems like Microsoft is trying to do the same.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Nintendo found a lane and is staying in it. Seems like Microsoft is trying to do the same.

You don’t think they need competition?

 

[Jaguar93]

You don’t think they need competition?

Yeah they need competition, competition is always good.

 

[Fatboi1]

Nintendo about to charge $2000 for the Switch 3 amirite?

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Nintendo about to charge $2000 for the Switch 3 amirite?

They already charge $80 for games, switch 1 games at that

 

[Rice N Beans]

Gunpei paved the road with this thinking in the OG GameBoy. They ended up walking through it. He is the second most influential person ever at Nintendo behind Miyamoto.

Efficiency and the gameplay experiences will be better than the shiny hardware aspects. Until someone else thoughtfully jumps into that lane, they will not have any competition.

 

[VegetasHairline]

 

[42 Monks]

nintendo competes with itself well

not even trying to spin that as a insult either

 

[Diunx]

You don’t think they need competition?

Sure but at the same time their dumb ass manchild fans can speak with their wallets instead of swallowing every load Nintendo shoots in their mouths.

 

[42 Monks]

Sure but at the same time their dumb ass manchild fans can speak with their wallets instead of swallowing every load Nintendo shoots in their mouths.

have you seen the local xbox fans lately

 

[winb83]

Gaming doesn't need competition anymore let these companies do whatever they want and it will be what it is. That's how gamers prefer it.

 

[Killer Instinct]

No pearl clutching or anxiety about "lack of competition" huh?

 

[Return of the Jedi]

This has been the case since the Wii launched in 2006.

I hope the two have to at least compete in some domains or else it’s bad for the industry as a whole. I don’t even know what Microsoft’s vision is.

 

[Secure Da Bag]

This has been the case since the Wii launched in 2006.

I hope the two have to at least compete in some domains or else it’s bad for the industry as a whole. I don’t even know what Microsoft’s vision is.

Make PCs the new Xbox and finally be a competitor to Steam.