Nintendo President Wants Innovations

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata challenged attendees of the Game Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif., to create bold new games.

The company will provide the tools for them to do so as Revolution draws closer to launch, he assured.

Nintendo is aiming to go to the limit with Revolution. The developers would be able to create completely new experiences due to its design, which controls action on the screen by the movement of the controller itself.

Iwata said software to create these experiences will be made available via download through Nintendo's virtual console service. He also announced it had signed deals with Sega and Hudson to emulate their consoles as well. Nearly 1,000 Sega Genesis games will be made available, as well as those from the TurboGrafx console, a partnership development between NEC and Hudson.

Iwata also shared with the attendees that the company had gone through hundreds of sketches and dozens of prototypes before settling on the current design. He says the controller is Nintendo's "method to disrupt the market," and realizes a "new way to connect a player to his game."