DeNA系の名物社長 「NGPはオワコン、3DSは子供騙し」
米国のスマホ系ゲーム会社ngmoco（DeNA傘下）の名物社長ニール・ヤング氏が、NGP・3DSに厳しいコメント。
ヤング氏の考えでは、App-Storeの競争力が強すぎて、NGPはとっくに詰んでいる、とのこと。
"I think PSP is done and the new [NGP] is dead on arrival," he said. "It's really difficult to compete with an app store that has hundreds of thousands of applications and a wide range of options where the average price paid is around US$ 1.20 and there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands of free applications that are really high quality. So I just don't think Sony's going to be able to compete with that."
またNGPは、iPadをはじめとする競合デバイスに敗北するだろうとの見通しを示した。
"It's not a PS3 quality experience...," he said. "And in terms of getting broad adoption, having great processing power is not necessarily a prerequisite for great adoption in the marketplace. You need a range of things and what I think the iPod Touch and iPhone have been able to do is offer people swiss army knife type functionality for a device that plays games really well."
また氏は3DSは強力な任天堂IPのために手ごわいことを認めつつ、結局子供騙しに過ぎない、と述べた。
"I think Nintendo will likely be competitive," he said. "My personal opinion is that the 3D piece of the puzzle is kind of gimmicky. But Nintendo has great franchises and there are tens of millions of people who want to participate in those franchises, so that always helps... But the real question is the degree to which there's a third-party community."
コメント：
これって、このまえAppleが3DSにケンカを売ったときの言い分と同じですね。
似たような内容になるのは、まあ当然といえば当然なのでしょうが。
映画とTVドラマみたいなもので、スマホとゲーム機って、実際にはそれほど競合しないような気はするのですが、どうなんでしょう。iPhoneアプリとCSゲームのどちらを選ぶと聞かれても困りますよね？
ヤング氏の考えでは、App-Storeの競争力が強すぎて、NGPはとっくに詰んでいる、とのこと。
"I think PSP is done and the new [NGP] is dead on arrival," he said. "It's really difficult to compete with an app store that has hundreds of thousands of applications and a wide range of options where the average price paid is around US$ 1.20 and there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands of free applications that are really high quality. So I just don't think Sony's going to be able to compete with that."
またNGPは、iPadをはじめとする競合デバイスに敗北するだろうとの見通しを示した。
"It's not a PS3 quality experience...," he said. "And in terms of getting broad adoption, having great processing power is not necessarily a prerequisite for great adoption in the marketplace. You need a range of things and what I think the iPod Touch and iPhone have been able to do is offer people swiss army knife type functionality for a device that plays games really well."
また氏は3DSは強力な任天堂IPのために手ごわいことを認めつつ、結局子供騙しに過ぎない、と述べた。
"I think Nintendo will likely be competitive," he said. "My personal opinion is that the 3D piece of the puzzle is kind of gimmicky. But Nintendo has great franchises and there are tens of millions of people who want to participate in those franchises, so that always helps... But the real question is the degree to which there's a third-party community."
コメント：
これって、このまえAppleが3DSにケンカを売ったときの言い分と同じですね。
似たような内容になるのは、まあ当然といえば当然なのでしょうが。
映画とTVドラマみたいなもので、スマホとゲーム機って、実際にはそれほど競合しないような気はするのですが、どうなんでしょう。iPhoneアプリとCSゲームのどちらを選ぶと聞かれても困りますよね？