{"id":10061,"date":"2011-02-15T12:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"nintendo-boss-says-cheap-games-are-a-risk-for-the-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10061-nintendo-boss-says-cheap-games-are-a-risk-for-the-industry","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo boss says cheap games are a risk for the industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo North America president Reggie Fils-Aime believes that cheap mobile games are one of the biggest current risks to the games industry. Nintendo plans to release the 3DS in a few months, and games for the device will cost between $35 (R245) and $45 (R315). In contrast, many games on Apple&rsquo;s iStore, such as Angry Birds, cost between $1 (R7) and $2 (R14).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Angry Birds is a great piece of experience,&#8221; he said to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametrailers.com\/episode\/gametrailers-tv\/113&amp;ch=1&amp;sd=0?ep=113&amp;ch=1&amp;sd=0\" target=\"_blank\">Gametrailers<\/a>, &#8220;but that is one compared to thousands of other pieces of content that for one or two dollars I think create a mentality for the consumer that a piece of gaming content should only be $2.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Obviously the concern is that casual gamers in particular will become accustomed to paying next to nothing for games. These are the same gamers that make up most of Nintendo&rsquo;s current target market, so obviously the company feels threatened by the meteoric rise of cheap mobile gaming.<\/p>\n<p>Having said that, Nintendo has previously announced that it will launch an eShop for the 3DS, which will supposedly specialise in cheap mini-games designed to compete directly with the mobile casual gaming market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/11047-Nintendo-boss-is-afraid-of-cheap-games\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Are cheap games a risk to the idustry?\"><strong>Are cheap games a risk to the industry?<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Share your thought on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are casual gamers becoming accustomed to $1 iPhone games? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}