nintendo denied that pretty hotly.have denied it up and down to every news outlet thas o of two and a half years and make it really pretty. but this thing or tamagochi, space invaders, it's about gameplay. ofis guy develops this ge in the co o a couple hours. nintendo with 5000 employees is stggli tmes that appeal to peopl not si think he"n even death threats. because the game was so hard and they were blaming him. lex may be from the birds. [laughter] that is taking it t extremes. we will see if it comes back to life. it with edwards, thank you. break, thister the video is awesome. cory did something really cool. >> you want to see if i got sick. there i am. >> i love it. you do look a little scary. ♪ ilú.&28ñz( >> welcome back to "bloomberg west." -- did you ever want to know what it is like to be an astronaut or er a companyg signed a partnership with virgin galactic that will bring people to outer space. experience, flyingpu people into parabolic flight known as the vomit comet. you know i am terrified of heigh

>> there were some rumors that nintendo is planning to sue them. nintendo denied that.think that's true as far as we know. designing games. activision can spend $100 million developing game over 2.5 years and it can be ready and or this thing it or other things it's about gameplay. a this game is a copy of nintendo game from 15 years ago. the sky developed this game in the course of a couple of hours. nintendo with five thousand employees is struggling to come up with games that appeal to people. zynga not just sell it to or some other company? why take it off the app store? >> you can easily copy this and there are already seven copies on it online. this guy was just pressured by it. he felt with all the tweets and you tube postings, there were even death threats and whether they were fun or not because the game was so hard and they were blaming him. >> maybe there were other birds giving him death threats. >> exactly. comes backsee if it to life. thank you so much. do not go away,, this is really cool. >> there i am. ♪ >> welcome back to "bloomberg west." if you ever

there is a huge machine, a legal machine behind nintendo i'm sure. maybe that frightened him.'t even show my face. strict conditions as far as the interview is concerned. >> no, it is not that at all. we asked him to see about that and he says he is not worried at you will about being sued. the reason that he choose not to, to reveal his photo he says he wants to stay like exactly who he is, a game developer. and don't want the public -- publicity. liz: that is fascinating isn't it? david: they already have aunch -@ofmitaore. ey he flay pla,lappy whal appy pguin i d't tinkhosille sed by ninndo. >>hat interting h sai th rsone sto itow,lso wh is havg negiv impt on peoe. hereoe aed him alsoave a chd to, y kw, to sp e ga becse,hiamav take oreoplsocusg t ch ois ge. dad: wking away fro-- , i w jt gogoayki ns quit something thank you so much. liz: she is the one person who, i guess we just can't believe, but maybe there is nothing behind it except he was worried that it became addictive as a game. david: there were also some questions whether he was getting threats from people who ha

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. >> trying to corrupt the olympic village with your heterosexual nintend nintendos. >> taking over theics, mika. heterosexual is in everybody's face. >> do you know what tender is, mika? >> tender? that is like being soft? >> no. it's an app. >> she doesn't know. >> mike is married too. it doesn't work for any of us. snowboarder jamie anderson said the app was so distracting she had to delete her account to keep hur eye on the prize and not clear if she is back on the wagon and now she is done with her competition, maybe she is back on tender but you know what? i will find out if she is back on tender or not and have our investigative team on it. >>> jimmy kimmel has a few suggestions could take the stigma away from the luge event. >> some of the olympic lugers don't appreciate their sport depicted as gay even though it is. maybe luging would seem less if they tried some other positions. and we have this suggestion. face-to-face or we call this one the hood ornament. here we have the snow loaded. this is the -- this one is known as the surf and turf. and finally this one is called the

he may have gone pressure from nintendo, for example. saying there's a copyright issue. he just did not admit it. there could be a scam to get more people excited about the game. there are a couple of -- you cannot get anymore. there are a couple of phones that have it downloaded on ebay. one was 65 bits, up to $90,000. >> shut the front door. >> we probably have a full-screen. >> guys ridiculous. i will go with the second point. this is all a marketing campaign -- scam. i did not know what it was. ruined his simple life and he is taking it off and 22 hours. >> this is a marketing scam. >> countdown to get another copy. >> this is adam johnson playing flappy birds. >> he is so good. live on the upper east side. my kids do not know what it is. >> i do not know where you live. tribeca? that was my second guess. >> he lives in the suburbs -- what ever. that will be back with us later. we are talking about bit coin later. about thel talk college all-american who may be the first openly gay player in the nfl. that is next on "market makers." ♪ >> welcome back. i am stephanie

>> i'm not the best person to comment on nintendo strategy.es are growing 30% year over year. tablets are going 42%. we are focused on creating great contents. to give you an idea, and the last eight years, there has been about 150 million consoles sold. in the last quarter alone, 150 million. >> what about monetization question mark > >> it is free to play. of it. is the beauty if you get value, even choose to pay into premium virtual goods that are in the game. for a company doing 550 million a share -- this year, it speaks volumes. >> how is your strategy different from everybody else? >> we focus on a couple of things that are different. one is a focus on the core or traditional gamer. we are not making more cash or games that you pick up and put down a few minutes. we're focused on games that people play for a couple hours a day. we partner with hollywood companies as well as asian companies to bring leading content to a global audience. .> i want to ask you about jjfg a lot of people said he really had to a region and with asia there's a

nintendo is going to run and will soak up the wall. i know that not the point and experiences and stories. many of whom did the stupid not to expand its influence to his cards the edge. the two wanted some patient this evening before we compute the top stories thoughts again. i tried to get the spots on white objects fall into militant strongholds. and yet still talks what some call it a more still see don t get antsy i was all it is not believing in santa into. on tonight's edition is your seeds and tomato can. i don't i had to cut out now the doc started to talking to you on testing the tent at the factory. i just bought this month by ten cents ounce of minutes and stallholders in the us sub plots but somewhat to move to st nazis god he can dance i was was not living in st and zia. a sale. the study found people of cairns on the cs pockets tiny jets pounded suspected militant hideouts in or was he described the move comes days after the much hyped the stocks that either means i'm a caucus compound of mine collapsed today is friday to

convinced that kids were going to go to online play him a virtual play experience, playstation and nintendond experimentation time between 1999 and 2003 when they encouraged designers to think outside the box come outside the brick to come up with the next great play experience. what they learned it's virtual play experiences do not disrupt as a goal plate. withif you let kids play lego games like batman, indiana jones, they want more rather than less. rather than fight it, they have rolled with it. they are increasingly trying to tell stories that get kids involved with the brand and make them want to play with the toys. what they did is it is not just over onebut they have dozen cents in stores this week, which have different things that have appeared in movies, different vehicles in verse. they also have a tie in with google called building with chrome. you go onto a web app and meet up with the characters from the movie and teaches you how to build online in this app. to bring in these different things together to get hints involved in the brand, which they know will lead to selling mor

police claimed the teenager pointed a gun at the time of the shooting but the family says a nintendo wii video game controller was in his hands. meanwhile, authorities in texas are also facing questions over a fatal shooting. on sunday, a police officer shot dead a 47-year-old african-american woman after she opened the door for police. police claimed that she was armed but investigators now say they cannot confirm if she had a gun or even refuse to follow commands. u.n. general secretary ban ki-moon has appealed to the international community to send an additional 3000 troops to the central african republic to combat worsening sectarian violence. calamity with a strong claim on the conscious of humankind. over the past year we have seen in quick succession a violent overthrow of the government, the collapse of state institutions, and to send into lawlessness and sectarian brutality. more than 2.5 million people, more than half the population, needs immediate humanitarian assistance. a haitian appellate court has ruled that jean-claude "baby doc" duvalier could be charged with crimes

in the 1990s, they thought the nintendos were going to replace the actual toys.ey brought in the nonfamily guy to run this family-owned company and he started investing in all new kinds of play experiences and they end up with a lot of experiences, lego star wars and leg lego harry potter. but there they weren't very good, they got themselves into businesses that they didn't understand, not very profitable, they didn't make money for them. it all came crashing down at 2003. they almost went out of business ten years ago. >> what did they do to make it come back from the brink? >> they learned a couple of lessons. the digital did not disrupt the physical. if they play with virtual legso they want more boxes of bricks not less. with the cartoon with the comic book with the lego movie. the other thing they learned is, it can't just be a box of bricks. they have to work on developing all these complementary innovations. sorry go ahead. >> not only were they doing that, they were growing by leaps and bounds during the recession, what are the lfns that that success in

in the late '90s, they thought the nguyen tendos and -- nintendos and play stations would bring in thedigital toys. they brought in an expert to run the company. he invested in play experiences and they ended up with big hits. they had bionicles and lego harry potter, and a lot of toys that weren't appropriate, weren't good and they got into businesses that they didn't understand. not very profitable. they didn't make money for them. it came crashing down in 2003, and they were close to bankruptcy. they almost went out of business. >> what did they do to make it come back from the brink? >> they learnt a couple of lessons. one is that the digital did not disrupt the physical, that if kids play with virtual lego, they want more plastic bricks, not less. they learnt you want to compliment the box of bricks with the video game, with the cartoon show, the comic book and the lego movie. but it can't be a box of bricks. they have to work on developing all these complimentary innovations. >> not only were they successful in doing that, they were grown by leaps and bound during the recession,

caught by a wireless computer web cam, several officers can be seen bowling on the drug dealer's nintendo hours. one detective documenting evidence, repeatedly puts down a clipboard to hit the virtual lanes. 13 detectives and three sergeants spend nine hours searching the home, with some trying to perfect their game. the county sheriff calls the incident embarrassing. a gutter ball for the cops with a little too much time to spare. >> what are you doing? >> what are you doing? >> you can't touch me. >> an off-duty police officer lashes out after a video vigilante confronts more cops behaving badly. at home or at work, he goes by his real name, but on the streets, he's known as jimmy justice. >> it's about justice. for the average joe in new york, who's trying to get to work and is constantly being given a hard time by the cops for every tiny parking infraction that we do, and i've turned the tables on them. >> jimmy justice works as an audio systems engineer, but in his off time, he hits the road to catch what he says is a blatant disregard for the law by authorities. >> they have this se

children who are latchkey children, who get very little one-on-one time with their mom or dad, who have nintendo, sega, four pairs of sneakers. spending time with your mother or father is probably the most precious gift you can give your children. not so much the quantity but the quality of that time, and that that child recognizes that as a special time for him to share with his mom or his dad or both, or whomever the caregiver is. as children get older, the value of time together, and communication with trusted adults may be even more important. catherine parrish: i've been right here in baltimore city the whole time i've practiced, and as kids grow up, they feel that they need to trust someone. and you know, it's hard to trust your mom or dad when you're a teenager. i think we've all been there. it's not because mom or dad does anything wrong, it's just you're trying to find yourself at that age and maybe, mom or dad doesn't know what that is and you haven't figured out you can trust them. and so i become the person they can trust. and many kids come to me between the ages of 12 and 18 to tel

current price able to prioritize seeks to nintendo. i spilled some scenes that did for the female to see is that i can always fight to the mill want to use the real cops pulling a problem. and to go to all of these videos. and the icing on the other way before when we are always came to the sea of people here because the idea always says from la i was still young but yet it's okay if i can always have a court can use your souls. ok acquired from the other people think so when i solve the problem i always see. don't take tea compared to your own position what seemed about the quantity can not help you acquire the project to support you because you like and you must die to know quest of difficulty. oh for the people in uk now suppose you and the dance. coke. in the inquisition. bring your console for corn crop and use my air. manning call the twenty four years. i use facial is economic to kill people. you'll first need is to keep going. you can be going since we're on this and think about st seeing other people's perspectives. sony will

reuters was running a story saying that maybe there were some legal issues with nintendo, or he's a fantasticperson because now everybody wants the app. >> i will say this. i didn't play the game but i want to go buy it. i can't buy it anymore. >> the important thing to note is this guy on his twitter feed is now saying don't worry, i still make games, this is still my profession, still what i do every day. does he just hope the other ones are bad? that they don't take off in the same way? we may never know exactly what happens but there is one person who will be very successful. that's someone who has this on their iphone. there is an iphone for sale on ebay for $100,000. >> there you go. okay. we got to go. get married, have a couple of kids, [ children laughing ] move to the country, and live a long, happy life together where they almost never fight about money. [ dog barks ] because right after they get married, they'll find some financial folks who will talk to them about preparing early for retirement and be able to focus on other things, like each other, which isn't rocket science. it'

even mario is having trouble these days looking at nintendo.ave more than just this game. we haven't seen whether they will be able to extend that brand into other things. it's risky but you can take your shot. >> jane, what do you think? >> reporter: i was playing candy crush a little while ago. it's kind of a tetris for kids. it's a much more successful game than anything zinga has ever had but again, it is the one most successful game they have. the question is, these other games they have, can they become something more. and certainly the news that they will file for an ipo has been great today. the stock last i checked was up over 4%. >> thank you both very much. jon has been talking video games in the rundown but is also at the toy fair in new york city looking at high tech and low tech toys. there's a big annual event there in the city and he filed this report for us about 15 minutes ago. >> reporter: here at toy fair this year, we see tech's influence on just about everything, even toys as basic as the paper airplane. over here, a new t

we saw earnings that were weak from electronic arts and nintendo. looks like they are coming in strong. they report a non-gap revenue number and a gap revenue number but this appears to be a substantial increase of revenues over a year ago and well ahead of their guidance as well. i will compare to guidance. you know i don't like comparing two analysts. prior outlook for the non-cap deal --for the vivendi earnings per share, $.79 and the guidance was 72. they are doing better than expected in what could have been a very difficult quarter. fromxbox one, when happens console-based to a new and growing console base in the new game system is the name -- game neighbors -- game makers sell very few. it seems like they are bucking the trend. zard" because of vivendi? >> i'm amazed how seasonal their business is. the guidance for next quarter is about seven pennies. >> it's also about gametime releases. they get a get a good bump. business.t-driven when there is a grand theft auto out, they do fantastic. besides that, they struggle. they have the biggest hi

. >> i know in the past, nintendo's hands-free controller goes all the way back to 1998.visually impaired gamers, the same thing. >> one of the exciting things is that as games become more d.i.y. and the tools to make games get more and more into the hands of more people, people who have had personal experiences like aaron's will be more empowered to make these games themselves that are about personal experiences and experiences they've had. >> have you in your experience -- do sighted players -- obviously i read yesterday while i was studying up on this that blind players obviously in this game have the advantage. but people who are closing their eyes and playing this game do catch on fairly quickly. >> they do. we tried very hard to make an identical game play experience for sighted and visually impaired gamers. but through a helpful tutorial we were able to get them playing the game on almost the same level. >> thank you both very much. do you have a big idea that's making a difference? tell us about it by tweeting us or e-mailing us on the e-mail address that you see

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. >> rumor has it, nintendo ordered the game's creator to take down flappy bird right?ith legal. what is it? >> the developer yanked the game. super successful game. the guy was making $50,000 a day in advertising revenue. >> gosh. >> pulls the game off. anyone who has played it will recognize those green pipes look awfully similar to the super mario brothers game, but developer says he took it down because the game was too addictive and people were playing it too much, and he felt, you know, it was just a scourge on the population of playing this game, and i've played it. i have it installed on my phone so i can continue to play it to my heart's contempt. it's very addictive when you start playing it. it's so simple but then the bird dies and you've got to start over. i don't know how people get to 9,999 on their point, but let me tell you. i can't get past the second thing. it's interesting to see what's happened. we've heard reports that they are starting petitions on whitehouse.gov to bring the game back and, of course, there's also all of these games that popped up