Nintendo: We Can't Get Arrogant

Nintendo's next problem is going to be avoiding arrogance according to the company's president, Satoru Iwata.

Speaking with Newsweek's N'Gai Croal in a just-published E3 interview, Iwata said:

“Nintendo's next obstacle is to not lose its internal energy and internal momentum. I believe my most important role right now is to prevent Nintendo from being in a company where people say, 'Oh, Nintendo is arrogant,' 'Nintendo has let its guard down,' or 'Nintendo has lost its challenging spirit.' We want to avoid all of the pitfalls that can come from losing one's momentum.”

Far be it from SPOnG to suggest that Iwata's taking a pop at Sony, but...

Iwata also had a few words to say for those concerned by Nintendo's lack of new games at E3, saying, “we are definitely working on new franchises and we just didn't choose to talk about them yesterday.”

There's a reason for that, apparently. “... If we didn't feel that we had gained a lot of popular momentum and with success that it's shown so far, we might have tried to get out a little more information and do an upcoming products ...if we show too much now, too early, when those products are actually ready to come out, they won't seem very fresh if we just re-announce them later on”, Iwata added.

Iwata had further words of reassurance, this time directed at those who worry Nintendo is neglecting the core gamer. “...We have no intention of abandoning our core players and the people who have been Nintendo fans over the course of our history... we really believe that part of our mission is to make traditional games for our traditional audience”, Iwata said.

Let's just hope that some of those “traditional games” are some of the afore-mentioned “new franchises”, because SPOnG's still getting the heebie-jeebies from Nintendo guru Miyamoto's E3 comments.

^{Source: Level Up}