Wrapping up this year’s E3 show, Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata and Shigeru Miyamoto discuss what they see coming your way in the next year.
“Next year, our big focus is going to be on uniqueness and innovation,” said Miyamoto. “I think that definitely means more connectivity, but it also means more games that are in and of themselves unique. Unique ideas - of course, half of that is still all in my head.”
“But at the same time it's extremely important for us to continue to put out new products and new ideas and new franchises,” Iwata interjected. “Because, if we don't, there's really no future for us. And so that's going to be our main focus going forward. Next year we may see something more like last year, when we brought out Pikmin, which was something totally new and never before seen. And it surprised a lot of people. That's really the kind of surprise that Mr Miyamoto is looking for. And so the kinds of things we'll be showing next year may have some characters that people are familiar with but are completely new games. There might also be games that have characters that are themselves completely new. Mr Miyamoto is thinking about a lot of different things. There will be a lot to look forward to.”
We can hardly wait.