Thu, Mar 25, 2010 | 07:54 GMT
Miyamoto: “We were not able to produce fun-enough products” for 2009
Shigeru Miyamoto has admitted in an interview with The Economist that Nintendo’s software in 2009 was comparatively sub-par due to a “fun” failure.
“The fact that in 2009 we were not able to sell more than we did in 2008 was simply that in comparison, we were not able to produce fun-enough products,” he said.
“There are always ups and downs in this business. As long as we create unique and unprecedented experiences with videogames, there should be nothing to worry about,” Miyamoto further added.
2008, huh? We still have nightmares of Wii Music.
Miyamoto’s been on a fair bit of a media run recently, having picked up a BAFTA Fellowship last week.
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Posted in: DS, Nintendo, Wii
Tags: shigeru miyamoto
11 comments
#1
Razor
25/03/10, 7:55 am
And yet their hardware still trounced the competition.
Pretty incredible.
#2
Herlock
25/03/10, 8:13 am
And new IP…
#3
Michael O’Connor
25/03/10, 8:35 am
You can’t fault his honesty.
Looking forward to the Nintendo out-put this year though.
#4
Bulk Slash
25/03/10, 8:50 am
Didn’t they admit that about the year before as well?
#5
Blerk
25/03/10, 8:51 am
The trick is to get other people to make some for you, Shigsy. Actually perhaps part of the trick as far as Nintendo is concerned is to try and get some of their customers to actually buy some of those games that other people make, too.
#6
Hero of Canton
25/03/10, 8:59 am
Another part of that trick would be to get the other people that make these other games to spend more than 5p promoting them.
Also, Wii Music is great. Just sayin’.
#7
Blerk
25/03/10, 9:00 am
You are Shigeru Miyamoto aicmfp!
#8
Hero of Canton
25/03/10, 9:30 am
Would that I had his money.
#9
pleasant_cabbage
25/03/10, 9:35 am
I thought the wii had more 3rd party ‘million sellers’ than any other console platform? Mostly crappy party/waggle/soccermom/etc games but still the “no-one else sells on nintendo” line needs a slight modification
#10
Dannybuoy
25/03/10, 10:34 am
at last some honest, candid comment from Nintendo. Not the balls-out US style ramblings of Reggie.
#11
ianbenoir
25/03/10, 1:32 pm
@Dannybuoy.
You’re right.. much better then Reggie’s stupid comments.