flasaltine

@jackiechansfoot said:

*Diana Burnwood Voice*

Good evening, 47. Our client for this mission is I/O Interactive, video game producer and creator of the 2016 smash success Hitman. The game was recently the subject of a series of videos produced by the popular video-game website Giant Bomb dot com. I/O is upset because although these videos were successful in popularizing the game, they were also produced to give the impression the game is meant as a joke, rather than as serious assassination simulator as I/O intended. I/O has hired us to ensure that these videos stop. Permanently.

Your first target is one "Dirty" Daniel Ryckert, Giant Bomb employee and one of the principal architects of the offending video series. He is currently on the run in Italy, living under the assumed identity of "New Dan" and pursuing his secret dream of becoming an Italian plumber. This recent identity change may make tracking your target difficult. However, our analysts have uncovered some information that may be of help. Apparently, Mr. Ryckert subsists entirely on Taco Bell, is a massive fan of Nintendo's "Waluigi" character, and displays a shocking ignorance of the most basic well-known facts. These quirks may help you identify Mr. Ryckert, or may help you get close enough to eliminate him.

To be honest, we were . . . reluctant to take on a contract of this nature. However, it was ultimately decided that allowing the videos to continue would damage our profession's good name into as much it has I/O Interactive's. I would ask you be to careful, but I'm certain you will be able to give your target a lesson in proper assassination techniques. Good luck, 47. I will leave you to prepare.

@flasaltine: i entirely disagree with that. breaking into ps4/xbone space would be ruinous and a much bigger crapshoot for them. who knows how much they'd have to invest into courting back the all important 3rd parties, as well as making something on parity with (preferably better than) the other two. they basically have to reinvent themselves for something thats already saturated. much better to do something unique as well as keep a foothold in the area they do have dominance in. you're basically saying there's no point in trying to innovate/differentiate?

and them going software only i feel would be a surefire way to bolster irrelevance. look at sega, for instance. not dead of course but definitely a shadow of what they once were. and i for one would miss deeper portable experiences like nintendo's offerings. not really an argument but more of a feeling i have is that all those clamoring for software only nintendo are those who wouldn't care if they crumbled and fell off the face of the earth, or would even be happy. but that may be a bias speaking. ;)

@flasaltine: curious, what's your suggestion for a successful console from nintendo?