Miyamoto: Nintendo Wii enhancements coming for hardcore gamers

The Nintendo Wii is more prominently known as the “kid’s console.” Childish, shabby visual games are always being picked on by the more mature players, despite the fact that such an innovative console has tapped the greater expanse of the gaming market which even includes non-gamers.

So when GamePro’s Vicious Sid had an exclusive one-on-one with Nintendo’s game dev legend, Shigeru Miyamoto, and asked exactly how the Wii could address “future hardcore gaming,” he got this interesting response:

Well, right now I still look at the Wii’s sensor bar and the “pointing” technology we’ve developed as something that I think is going to end up being very effective for the types of games that the hardcore gamers like to play. There are also other enhancements to the Wii interface and developments being planned that are going to really make games for hardcore players a lot more fun and interesting.

Whoa. Now that’s an eye-opener if you ever did read one. Is the Nintendo Wii finally sidestepping from new generation to next generation? It’ll be a surprise if this US$ 250 console actually taps both into the new, broader market and the core market, to become the first new-gen, next-gen console in history to have ever achieved such a feat. A Commodore 64 in the making, perhaps?

What Nintendo has up their sleeves for it, however, is unclear. Miyamoto wants people to understand that Nintendo is actually interested in networking, just not over-the-top network games that the world is full of nowadays. While the Wii can be a 24/7 machine for connecting your TV to the World Wide Web, could multiplayer actually be in Nintendo’s mind in the near future?

Nintendo has seen the effect of the Nintendo Wii on the U.S. market, and never had thought that the console would reap such effects. Therefore, they could be aiming to adjust the Wii’s target coverage to innovation and hardcore gameplay. This is definitely something to anticipate from the legend and the Japanese gaming giant.

Via GamePro

The Nintendo Wii is more prominently known as the “kid’s console.” Childish, shabby visual games are always being picked on by the more mature players, despite the fact that such an innovative console has tapped the greater expanse of the gaming market which even includes non-gamers.

So when GamePro’s Vicious Sid had an exclusive one-on-one with Nintendo’s game dev legend, Shigeru Miyamoto, and asked exactly how the Wii could address “future hardcore gaming,” he got this interesting response:

Well, right now I still look at the Wii’s sensor bar and the “pointing” technology we’ve developed as something that I think is going to end up being very effective for the types of games that the hardcore gamers like to play. There are also other enhancements to the Wii interface and developments being planned that are going to really make games for hardcore players a lot more fun and interesting.

Whoa. Now that’s an eye-opener if you ever did read one. Is the Nintendo Wii finally sidestepping from new generation to next generation? It’ll be a surprise if this US$ 250 console actually taps both into the new, broader market and the core market, to become the first new-gen, next-gen console in history to have ever achieved such a feat. A Commodore 64 in the making, perhaps?

What Nintendo has up their sleeves for it, however, is unclear. Miyamoto wants people to understand that Nintendo is actually interested in networking, just not over-the-top network games that the world is full of nowadays. While the Wii can be a 24/7 machine for connecting your TV to the World Wide Web, could multiplayer actually be in Nintendo’s mind in the near future?

Nintendo has seen the effect of the Nintendo Wii on the U.S. market, and never had thought that the console would reap such effects. Therefore, they could be aiming to adjust the Wii’s target coverage to innovation and hardcore gameplay. This is definitely something to anticipate from the legend and the Japanese gaming giant.

Via GamePro