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[Firestorm]

http://www.theflyonthewall.com/permalinks/entry.php/NTDOY;GOOGid1218898

Nintendo, Google to collaborate on video games, Nikkei reports

In an extraordinary move, Nintendo (NTDOY) will work with online search engine leader Google (GOOG) to develop video games, Nikkei reports. A game software package designed to tap Google's highly competitive data-search capabilities as the key amusement factor is expected to go on sale in mid-April. Nintendo's president Satoru Iwata has acknowledged that the company needs "more attractive software." The collaboration is intended to give new impetus to Nintendo's game software development.

Full Article (sub only): http://e.nikkei.com/e/ac/tnks/Nni20100330D30HH636.htm

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Edit1:

and this is the game :lol
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rk3j/index.html

 

[Feep]

Google Earthbound?

 

[zoukka]

Worlds will implode.

 

[Danielsan]

Partnering with Nintendo.
Another step towards world domination.

 

[Magypsy23]

2012

 

[InfiniteNine]

The Google 3DS confirmed.

 

[Luigiv]

Early April fools joke or real development? Well time will tell I guess.

 

[D.Lo]

A counter attack on Apple?

 

[Mojojo]

and this is the game :lol
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rk3j/index.html

Ka-chi kochi kachi!

 

[slaughterking]

Well, we already knew about that internet search-based game for a year or so. And it apparently is Nintendos Golden Week title.

 

[Man]

0895145768402537@gmail.com

 

[Ezduo]

and this is the game :lol
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rk3j/index.html

...What is it?

 

[AniHawk]

Oh well, humanity had a good run.

 

[Nuclear Muffin]

Misleading thread title is misleading...

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/03/29/and-kensaku-nintendos-next-wii-game-plays-with-internet-search/

Nintendo are pooling Google search results for one single game (That is not being made by Nintendo but instead a developer called Shift)

 

[cw_sasuke]

News seems bigger that it actually is.

 

[stilgar]

But I still have to decide which one isn't the shark.

 

[Firestorm]

Misleading thread title is misleading...

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/03/29/and-kensaku-nintendos-next-wii-game-plays-with-internet-search/

Nintendo are pooling Google search results for one single game (That is not being made by Nintendo but instead a developer called Shift)

The OP explains that: A game software package designed to tap Google's highly competitive data-search capabilities as the key amusement factor is expected to go on sale in mid-April.

I can bold it for people who have a hard time reading three lines I guess.

 

[A Human Becoming]

I was worried this was an early April Fools joke that would get Firestorm banned. Then I clicked the link.

EDIT: $52 :lol

 

[Danthrax]

where is your god now, gaming industry/search engine industry/technology industry/entertainment industry/everything?

 

[Firestorm]

I was worried this was an early April Fools joke that would get Firestorm banned. Then I clicked the link.

EDIT: $52 :lol

I checked to make sure it wasn't April 1st in any part of the world yet!

 

[Allan Holdsworth]

Kensa X has been known for more than a year. Unless this is something else, which I doubt.

 

[Yen]

"Coming this summer, Mario and Luigi are GOOGLEWHACKING"

 

[Lich_King]

Needs a version with SafeSearch off.

 

[Baki]

Sony should collaborate with Google to design the PSP2 OS.

 

[A Human Becoming]

Sony should collaborate with Google to design the PSP2 OS.

As crazy as that might sound, I agree.

 

[Gr1mLock]

But I still have to decide which one isn't the shark.

sharks dont look back..know why?
...


cause they got no necks

 

[Combichristoffersen]

and this is the game :lol
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rk3j/index.html

Ka-chi kochi kachi!

Amazing music.

 

[Baki]

As crazy as that might sound, I agree.

Cross compatibility between Android app store. I say yes. :lol

 

[Vagabundo]

Sony should collaborate with Google to design the PSP2 OS.

MS would have a fit.

 

[Nemo]

Great, because I only listened to the song for about 30 seconds I'm now going have it in my head all day :/

 

[Hammer24]

Partnering with Nintendo.
Another step towards world domination.

The new axis of evil, huh?

 

[Shiggy]

Now that's their great title for Golden Week?

 

[yencid]

Nintendo turns them down at the last minute and thats the story of how google jumped into the console race...

 

[Rpgmonkey]

and this is the game :lol
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/rk3j/index.html

Ka-chi kochi kachi!

Dammit, that song!

 

[upandaway]

Well the song's pretty fun.

I swear I hear "eBay" somewhere in the song, too.

 

[Starchasing]

Well the song's pretty fun.

I swear I hear "eBay" somewhere in the song, too.

i hear it too !

is there a way to extract the song from flasl??

ta ta ta colo colo

BTW does anyone know more music like this?

 

[BowieZ]

Big Bang SOLVED.

 

[Sloane]

This could be fun if done right -- but how isn't this WiiWare? '10.000 search terms on disc' makes it sound... ugh.

 

[dsister44]

MEGATON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


i don't know about you, but i'm an expert on japaneese culture and they love google blah blah blah ect.


it's not like this game was announced in october 2008 or anything .....

 

[offshore]

Sony should partner with Bing then...

 

[Shikamaru Ninja]

Misleading thread title is misleading...

http://www.siliconera.com/2010/03/29...ternet-search/

Nintendo are pooling Google search results for one single game (That is not being made by Nintendo but instead a developer called Shift)

Truthfully the only thing that is known is that a company called Shift is entitled in the copyright alongside Nintendo. You can't extrapolate that Shift is doing the development or all the development and Nintendo has no involvement based on that.

 

[Eteric Rice]

Nintendo to buy google? :lol

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

sharks dont look back..know why?
...


cause they got no necks

Sharks dont look back, because there is an explosion, and if you dont look at explosions you are insta-cool.

 

[Dragon]

Sony should collaborate with Google to design the PSP2 OS.

Makes sense, since Sony's efforts have been pretty lax on that front on the PSP/PS3.

 

[345triangle]

MEGATON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


i don't know about you, but i'm an expert on japaneese culture and they love google blah blah blah ect.


it's not like this game was announced in october 2008 or anything .....

i don't know a single japanese person who uses google anything! except maps, anyway. i'm sure google has more to gain from this than nintendo in japan at least - yahoo is a way bigger deal, and this is google putting their name somewhere no search company has reached yet. probably not bad marketing, really.

 

[zigg]

Kensa X has been known for more than a year.

Yeah, as soon as I read the OP, I thought, "oh, that game."

I'm rather relieved that's all it was, honestly. I don't see how any of Google's properties or expertise would remotely be a good fit for a Nintendo platform.

Social networking a la Facebook, on the other hand... well, I wrote about it once. Honestly, I think anyone still trying to build their own network next gen is wasting their time.

 

[abstract alien]

I like the song...

 

[Stumpokapow]

this game is going to sell fewer than fifty thousand copies lifetime

 

[Luigiv]

Sharks dont look back, because there is an explosion, and if you dont look at explosions you are insta-cool.

Like so?

 

[Regulus Tera]

I cannot stop listening to that song.