Nintendo considering ways to utilize NFTs in a way that doesn't diminish 'joy'
The developer of Super Mario and Pokemon franchises cares more about providing a good experience for its players than winning a console race. After releasing its latest financial results report, Nintendo held a live Q&A where they reportedly expressed "interest" and "potential" in the Metaverse when it comes to introducing blockchain and NFT technology into their video games. According to the Twitter of David Gibson, Senior Analyst at MST Financial, he asked what the Japanese gaming giant thought about the Metaverse and NFTs, and they confirmed that they are not currently working on....
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Former Nintendo of America President, Reggie Fils-Aimé, believes that the gaming industry is steadily going to integrate metaverse elements into its games. Fils-Aimé thinks that established gaming companies, like Nintendo, are better suited to be leading the race for the metaverse than other companies due to their experience in building interactive and persistent worlds.
Former Nintendo President Thinks Gaming Companies Will Lead the Metaverse
The race toward the metaverse space is on, and some think that gaming companies have the upper hand to lead the space in the....
Reggie Fils-Aimé, the former president of Nintendo of America, has offered his take on blockchain and play to earn models when applied to the gaming industry. The executive declared that he was a big believer in blockchain technology, and that players investing their time in games should be able to monetize whatever items they had gained. Former Nintendo President Believes Blockchain Elements Can Be Used in Gaming While the opinion of blockchain and play-to-earn technologies is still negative among traditional gamers, some veterans of the gaming industry seem to be taking these....
Big tech giants such as Microsoft, Tencent, Sony, Nintendo, and others joined the Web3 space in the past two years. A new report from crypto analytics firm Coingecko dives into the sector and the projects backed by these major companies to answer a question: how are they investing in the nascent industry? Related Reading: Want […]
There are good ways to sell your bitcoins when you need cash, and there are bad ways. CCN has documented numerous bad ways over the years, sometimes with victims writing in to us. Other times we just happen to notice a scam going on, and make haste to inform our readership about it. And still other times, readers write in to let us know that something doesn't seem right. There are times when we will reserve the word
On Saturday, a popular Youtuber named Stacksmashing published a video that shows him hacking a 1989 Nintendo Game Boy in order to mine bitcoin. Despite the creativity and the fact that the miner only leverages four double-A batteries, Stacksmashing noted that the 8-bit handheld game console was not nearly as powerful as today’s modern mining rig. Mining Bitcoin With a Game Boy Four years ago, a few people created some interesting methods to mine and connect with the Bitcoin network. For instance, the bitcoiner Ken Shirriff who is known for getting the bitcoin symbol added to Unicode....