Nintendo Runs Out Of Ideas For Wii

by Kev Lochun on August 4, 2008 at 5:22 pm

Main man Satoru Iwata lets slip that Wii Music is Nintendo’s last original idea for Wii. But he’s not worried about having to pile money back into R&D. There’s still most of the world to conquer.

Speaking to the Wall Street Journal, Iwata explains that Wii Music is the culmination of everything that Miyamoto put in his proposal for the Wii.

“[Miyamoto] was saying that he needs to think up more ideas now,” he reveals. “Most of the ideas for accessories that we had initially come up with are out now. We might think up some more, and we might make them if we do, but we don’t have any plans to release a whole lot more.”

Which in one sense is rather good – Nintendo can focus on making the most of the peripherals it has rather than jumping from one novelty to the next. Or will they? Iwata has some ambitious ideas for the future.

“After we complete our mission in developed countries, then we’ll have to start thinking about how to make our products appealing in developing countries,” he says. “We’ll have a whole new dimension of issues to tackle like pricing, quantity availability and regional adaptation. We’re not going to meet our goals that easily.”

Source: Wall Street Journal

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