Koch Media's CEO, Dr Klemens Kundratitz, recently spoke with GamesIndustry.biz about the current state of DS development and why he believes that the market being flooded with DS titles is a bad thing:
"We're all faced with too much casual and DS product between now and Christmas, so we're also the victim of that," he said in an interview at Game Connection in Lyon. "But I think that in spite of the economic worries we as an industry can be quite confident that we're not affected in too abrupt a way."
For me there is no such thing as too much DS product, as the little platform has turned out some of the most consistently innovative and pleasantly surprising titles on the market today, but I can see where the good doctor is coming from. I would think this issue relates more strongly to the Wii, which is choking in casual titles and definitely has a hardcore fanbase trying to wait it out until the titles that appeal to their gaming sensibilities appear.
Check out the full interview here and see if you agree or disagree with the rest of Dr. Kundratitz's thoughts on the current state of the industry.
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3:03 PM on 11.17.2008
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Right now developing for Nintendo systems is relatively easy. If you can con some shmuck into publishing your shit and get the ESRB to give you a brick-and-mortar worthy rating then your good.
and total crap stuff that was not a tie in until the game sold like TAK
Stop buying and they will stop make it and wow there will be tons of room with some of those gone.
finding nemo and over the hedge is not ducktales and chip in dale on the NES where that was good.
THe PC versions of zoo tycoon suck i can only guess how nad that game is on the DS.
I must know what insane mind owns those games.
Just look at the release lists for every week. The Wii and DS have like three times the number of releases as the other systems.
If that isn't choking in crap then I don't know what is.
The DS is a decent system, though to be honest, the only truly "awesome" gaming experience I've had on it would be with Elite Beat Agents (despite half of the songs being utter crap).
I can't wait for Culdcept DS though!
Yes, the DS library as a whole is utter crap, but people can't say that there aren't ANY good games for the system. I've got a couple of imports because a lot of the best stuff gets left overseas, but I'm quite content with what I've got. It's just a shame that the library is pushing 800 now (or is it over?) and there are only a handful of quality titles...
I forget where I read it but I vaguely recall someone at Nintendo wanting to bring back the Quality Seal of Approval. Maybe I imagined it.
The seal pf approval is still there. The standards for a game getting one has diminished dramatically. I believe some third world nations use them as currency, with the equivalence of manure per ounce.
In this case of over saturation, I would like there to be a quality control for it as in the NES/SNES days again.
Again, I don't deny there is a shit load of DS games that are crap.
I just want to be sure you know about the 1983 game crash
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_crash_of_1983