eSporten vokser støt i hele verden, og der er selvfølgelig penge at tjene, så det lader til at samtlige af de store udgivere skynder sig at udvikle en platform de kan benytte fremadrettet. Turneringer, grupperinger, titler med særlig konkurrenceorientering og partnerskaber med hold - det ligger alt sammen ganske fast. Dog ønsker Nintendo at gøre dette ganske anderledes.
Naturligvis har Nintendo allerede haft fingrene i den bolledej med Smash Bros-serien, der i længere tid har været fast inventar med EVO-kampspilsturneringen, men fremadrettet vil firmaet forsøge at gøre lidt mere ud af deres eSportstilstedeværelse.
For nylig talte Nintendo-chefen Reggie Fils-Aime lidt med The Verge, og her fortalte han lidt om strategien:
"We've been fortunate with Smash Bros. to have a franchise that has been very active in this space. What we've been doing is educating our developers and candidly creating some expertise ourselves in how to engage with the community. Now we have a fantastic relationship with the Smash Bros. community; I would say that was not true fix, six, seven years ago. We think that Arms can support a very vibrant community.
"We were in e-sports back in 1995 with the very first Nintendo World Championships. We've been in this space. I think what Nintendo is doing, as we always do, is our unique view on this, and finding ways to make it a bit more mainstream and a bit more massive, maybe than others have done. We're going to do it differently."
Ja, det lyder ikke synderligt konkret, men det lader da til at med titler som Pokkén Tournament DX, Arms og Splatoon 2, vil vi se et større fokus på konkurrenceorienteret spil end tidligere.
