Mon, Aug 03, 2009 | 07:10 BST
Miyamoto – Digital distribution is not “the future of videogames”
Digital distribution is the future of gaming, says just about everyone. Not Nintendo’s Shigero Miyamoto. He’s buckwild. He’s an opinion-flying renegade.
“We really don’t see the future of video games being merely confined to digital distribution or moving solely or even to a majority of our products being distributed that way,” the dev legend told the Mercury Evening News.
Stating the bleeding obvious, the Nintendo boss added that hardware implementation isn’t something you can do over a wire.
“Entertainment is something that will not just become digital,” he said. “If I look at Wii MotionPlus, this is something that you’re not doing via digital distribution.”
There’s a short interview with little else in it through the link.
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Tags: digital distribution, shigeru miyamoto
6 comments
#1
sickpuppysoftware
03/08/09, 8:31 am
You can’t download hardware over the internet?
I’m shocked
#2
Blerk
03/08/09, 10:04 am
Well done, Shigsy.
/slow clap
#3
OrphanageExplosion
03/08/09, 10:37 am
I like the picture chosen to accompany this piece.
Miyamoto. Massive.
Does he hail from Manchester?
#4
freedoms_stain
03/08/09, 11:33 am
I think he missed the point somewhere along the road.
Maybe if someone invents star trek style transporters or replicators we could have digital delivery of hardware, which would probably please Wii owners obsessed with having a different plastic fisherprice accesory for every single game they own.
#5
anasui
03/08/09, 12:14 pm
will be fun to see people slamming him for this then eating their hats once they relize he’s right by looking at the sales
#6
Gundam
03/08/09, 2:27 pm
He states the obvious, but then so does this article. Digital distribution will have a very big future for the games industry but i think shigsy may very well be refering to things like ‘onlive’ where it seems to be throwing all its eggs into one basket. He merely further impacts Nintendo’s strategy once again for this generation, broad market selling.
As if we didnt know already.