In the game Super Mario Bros.., one of the items most sought after are the fungi. Are the cafes, which make you grow, and the greens, which give you a life extra.
Just yesterday, Nintendo presented their new console called the Switch, which is that fungus green that they needed to try to stay current in the world of consoles, which today is hoarded by the titans of the pixels the Xbox One and Playstation 4.
a little over a month that Shigeru Miyamoto, the father of Marios Bros., presented the first official version of its creation for a smartphone, the iPhone. There I had the opportunity of chatting with him and commented that, despite the fact that I knew that it was time for the plumber Italian came to a hardware that was not designed by Nintendo, you never cease to produce its own hardware.
"Today the advantages of the smartphone is that you carry it with you wherever, and that many people have; when you look at our hardware platforms (consoles), there are certain types of games that can only be created and run in them, so we will continue to see the peculiarities of both platforms, and we will continue trying to bring our characters and intellectual property to the two, taking advantage of its unique features. In what refers to the system of hardware, there will be systems that we design, that will be unique, with our skills and games that will only play on those systems," said Miyamoto.
And just that is what I presented yesterday the japanese company, a console that allows you to play on a big tv and at the same time, instantaneously, take the game way portable. Nintendo knows that the present of gaming is mobile, and that’s why he designed this console as a hybrid to the gamers, who can play anywhere and any time.
Switch enables gamer, just remove the console from the port of loading and connection, can take a tablet with a HD screen, where it plays exactly the same as I was doing that on the tv, in addition of having sticks or controls that were also designed to be portable or versions of "home" depending on where you choose to play.
The social networks were filled with opinions divided about the console
—which will hit the stores until march next year— because for some it is more of the same, without any real innovation, and for others it is a great idea to mix a console "to carry" with the same experience that is playing at home.
Of all this, the only thing that that I, among so many opinions, it is as well said Miyamoto, the search for the best console is in function of the exclusive games they have, and not necessarily the hardware. And is that Mario Bros., Zelda, Metroid and a host of Nintendo games, they don’t need the super graphics power than its rivals, unless you get a Battlefield of Smash Bros. or a Mario Kart – style Forza, so that the fan of those games will continue to buy the console where you can play those titles and those exclusives are just that Nintendo has not chosen to license their intellectual property.
Super Mario Run is the bet not to get out of their consoles, but to fall in love with the new generations and to run the new to play there and only there the new Mario, Zelda, and so on. Switch, whatever they say, whether we like it or not, it will be a success or a failure depending on the games of classic characters that come to it or, in one of those, Miyamoto and company surprises us with a new character, but as it happens this fungus green yes he gave life to Nintendo.
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