Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has warned several times against the influx of cheap mobile games claiming that they are the greatest threat to the future of quality gaming; but David Jaffe, founder of Eat Sleep Play believes that Iwata's argument is just a bunch of bullshit.
"I was at [Iwata's] keynote, three, four years ago. He stood on stage, had this great, powerful presentation where he was talking about disruption," Jaffe said, referring to Iwata's GDC keynote about the (then new) Wii and DS. "I don't know if it's karma or good old fashioned irony that now he's pushing back against the very thing he was claiming was valuable in his earlier keynote, which is disruption."
"The reality is, you can't put a price on fun," Jaffe added. "I don't care if it's 99 cents or $150 or $1000 over the years in sub fees to an online MMO."
"Fun is fun, so I think it's an absurd concept to say, this is the criteria, these are the ingredients you [need] to make fun otherwise you can't play. That's bullshit, man."
