At GDC 2006, a lone figure stood outside with a sign:
With his green Nintendo University shirt and his sign, he told Iwata to ‘drop the bomb’.
People thought he was crazy. But he was telling us about the future…
Above: Matt Cassamassina from IGN gets his photo taken with Prophet Tactics
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After E3 2010, I sent an email to Prophet Tactics to ask him if Iwata dropped the bomb. The below is his words:
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Confirmed: The bomb has been dropped.
I was as shocked as you were to figure out the truth: Nintendo is literally (and very deliberately) attempting to disrupt Sony’s (and Microsoft’s) HOME CONSOLES with a HANDHELD. It’s unprecedented!
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Ever since GDC2006 I’ve known that Nintendo’s next move was 3d– It just never occurred to me what they really had planned.
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I read 2 interviews in the last couple days, one with Iwata and one with Reggie, where they both said quite clearly that Nintendo has been “looking at” and “planning to go” to 3d for over a decade. It’s funny what, once they set their sights on destroying Sony, they decided to do instead:
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They waited, like a tiger stalking an unsuspecting bunnyrabbit, for Sony to rush into crappy and expensive 3d technology (shutter glasses. yuck.), and only then did they decide to pounce. They waited for Sony to do this with their home console, deliberately, so that they could use the 3ds to disrupt the same console a second time. Nintendo literally baited them into copying the motion controller and let them keep the illusion that 3d would be their “leg up” (and their savior hahaha), and then did this. I just cannot stop laughing about it: It’s the final nail in the coffin!
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I sincerely believe that Sony will exit the video game market once the PS3 has run its course. With Nintendo making them look like fools time and time again, why would Sony’s board of directors and shareholders allow them to sink another few hundred million into another console?
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A handheld disrupting the home console market… it’s just too funny. I have laughed out loud at your blog posts lately that say things like “Nintendo is vicious. I would not want to be against them in business.” because it is SO TRUE.
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Hey, just for fun, I took a picture for you. Now everybody can know 100% that I AM PROPHET TACTICS!
I put on the same shirt and everything :)
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