DICE: Reggie commands, "Innovate or die"

In his
opening presentation at the
DICE Summit in Las Vegas
today, Nintendo's Reggie Fils-Aime warned that if developers continue to only target young males, the market will
shrivel up and die. He pointed to a recent Piper Jaffray study that suggested at least 75% of high school students have
become less interested in video games. To prevent further decay in the industry, Reggie posed these five commandments
for developers to follow:
- Thou shalt not focus on horsepower or pretty pictures. Thou shalt honor
entertainment
- Thou shalt keep "mass" in mass market. Thou shalt reach beyond hardcore. Thou
shalt not be self-limiting
- Thou shalt not alienate new players with high prices or narrow content
- Thou shalt innovate or die
- Thou shalt create a democracy of ideas for new games, where the focus isn't
on the biggest production budgets