14 DAY TRIAL // Nintendo is a huge company in the gaming industry these days, thanks to the hardware best-sellers Wii and DS, and due to the big number of high-grossing franchises that further fuel the Japanese company in order to make even more innovations.
A big part in the success that Nintendo has been recording was played by the motion controls for the Wii console. Now, as Microsoft and Sony have both announced new technologies to rival it, things, according to analysts, might get more challenging for Nintendo.
Yesterday we heard what legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto thought of them, and now we hear that the president of the company, Satoru Iwata, talked with TimesOnline about Microsoft's Project Natal and about the yet-unnamed technology from Sony, which gravely resembles the Wii Remote.
During the interview, he said a very surprising thing, namely that he was expecting these announcements to arrive last year. “To tell the truth, I expected them to come up with stuff like this last year. So in my mind they're later than expected.” But this doesn't mean that the president of Nintendo isn't happy about the move from his two biggest rivals. “I'd like to say to them, Welcome to the motion-control world!”
The executive went on to say that his company “will not be standing still” and that he was “actually looking forward to engaging in that sort of competition.” He warned the two companies that Nintendo was always working on something new, so they needed to have a few more aces up their sleeve in order to truly compete with the Japanese company.
“However, we still have no idea about when their products will be available, or how much they will cost, or what sort of software they will be used with,” he added. “So, I am not in a position to judge whether they are a threat or not.”
In the end, Iwata has a point, as Nintendo's method is already tried and true, and thanks to the Wii MotionPlus peripheral it will be even more popular. Let's just wait and see what Microsoft and Sony can bring to the table in the form of actual games and not just tech demos.