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Nintendo on competitive fun vs. Esports, potential for another Nintendo World Championships

by rawmeatcowboy
15 October 2017
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Coming from an IGN interview with Nintendo's Doug Bowser...

“If we look a the spectrum, esport is really on one extreme...and on the very other side of the spectrum you've got what we call competitive fun. I still classify us in this competitive fun range because we do want to make sure our content is accessible with hardware. And I think we've really done that with Switch. We've got great content on the device, more to come obviously since we're in the early stages. But we think that allows us to promote that competitive fun.

“We'll learn from each one of these events and determine how` we can do it better the next time. Can't guarantee it'll be the next year or the year after but clearly we know that it is a format that works, that's very popular, not only amongst the players but amongst viewers. So we'll learn a lot from this round and then determine what this looks like next. There's a lot we can do.”

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