Korean game industry should be more like Nintendo, says president

Oh dear god, now it's not enough that Koreans point and laugh at him every day; his idiotic comments make him an international laughing stock too.

I think it is more of an issue of South Korea having 49 million people vs Japan's 127 million. I'm sure if both countries had just as large a population and economy, that South Korea would be creating stuff like Nintendo.

Nintendo is the industry's future, after all, but Korea's infrastructure is (dare i say it) more advanced than those nations where consoles dominate.

Well, I personally liked my GP2X better than my DSlite. The bigger screen, better buttons and with a decent D-Pad modded in also better D-Pad (I gotta admit that stick sucks). Other than that, I don't think the GP2X F100 and F200 are produced anymore since GPH is working on a small system called GP2X Wiz, which so far looks promising. Also there's the Pandora, which I can't wait for.

The whole concept of homebrew on consoles with an open firmware and open specs is really cool, it's just not fit for the mainstream market, which is not a bad thing. Different products have different target groups. If everyone went mainstream we would miss such gems like the gp32, gp2x, wiz and pandora.

So yeah, I prefer playing emulated classics on my GP2X to any of the thousands of crap games being released these days (of course there are exceptions, but you get my point).

"It's for that very same reason that GamePark Holdings' GP2X (a Korean-made handheld system which relies on homebrew) isn't exactly flying off the shelves."

I think the creators of the system always knew they were going to be a niche product. Its open architecture made piracy considerably easier. Considering the relative security of the DS and PSP it was destined to be a geek’s toy, not a mainstream one.

"HYUNDAI??!?!?!"

maybe they should stop thinking that they are the origin of everything in the world (that includes Nintendo) first?

Korea already have it good with their online game industry. Trying to go into something like Nintendo industry is a bad idea... unless they do ideas like putting their online games on a handheld console which supports heavily for this kind of games only then.... then it might just last long enough. Or just do something like Ragnarok on DS (which only exist in japan thus killing the potential of becoming popular).