Shigeru Miyamoto sees the future of Nintendo games in HD
IndustryGamers recently caught up with Nintendo‘s Shigeru Miyamoto in NYC, where the gaming exec shared his thoughts on high definition gaming. While he said nothing that would point us to a Wii HD, we now have more reason to believe that Nintendo isn’t gonna sit on its motion-control laurels and leave the graphics as they are. Miyamoto himself has confirmed – “Nintendo’s games move along in step with the progression of technology.”
IndustryGamers recently caught up with Nintendo‘s Shigeru Miyamoto in NYC, where the gaming exec shared his thoughts on high definition gaming. While he said nothing that would point us to a Wii HD, we now have more reason to believe that Nintendo isn’t gonna sit on its motion-control laurels and leave the graphics as they are.
Miyamoto himself has confirmed – “Nintendo’s games move along in step with the progression of technology.”
Back in June, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata noted that he found no significant reason to make an HD-capable Wii. Later that month, Wedbush Morgan noted that such a console could damage the PS3 comeback.
This won’t be first time that Miyamoto comment on progressing technology. In November of 2008, he used the phrase, “evolving technology” but the context is pretty much the same as it is almost a year later.
“I don’t think there’s anything wrong with pretty graphics, and if I’m a consumer that has an HDTV, I’d want to be able to play my games with nice graphics too,” he told IndustryGamers yesterday. “And I think as we’ve seen the penetration rates for HDTV increase, we’re going to see video games and Nintendo’s games move along in step with the progression of technology.”
HD TVs weren’t as common today as when the Wii was launched, so there’s definitely more reason for Nintendo to go with that flow. For now, it’s still not clear if a Wii HD is on its way.
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