New Nintendo console coming when needed
At a recent financial briefing, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata stated the Japanese manufacturer will not launch a new gaming system until the market demands it.
“As we continue our research and study for new hardware, when we will be able to launch a new kind of hardware will actually depend on when we can change entertainment completely, and so have a strong impact on people around the world. There will certainly be a time when we have to say that we have done everything possible with the current machine, that we can never propose anything new. We long for a new weapon whenever we cry that we cannot fight anymore with the current weapons. But today’s situation is such that we are not desperate for any new weapons at all.:
“Also, since Nintendo’s hardware engineers and software creators are always communicating closely, only when both teams agree that it is time to challenge the market with new hardware that we will launch it. So, it is not a correct observation that we are having any trouble deciding on the launch timing of the next hardware.”
He went on to deny rumblings that new ideas for DS were running low. “We are not suffering from the shortage of new ideas for DS. I heard that some of the attendees to our October 10th conference were expecting to hear about a new portable machine announcement, but we never had that kind of notion in the first place,”
Why in the world would Nintendo even be thinking of another console? They can’t even keep their current one on the shelves!!
Comment by TechVidiot | January 9, 2008