This week, after months of anticipation, Sony revealed its new motion sensitive controller, the Move, at the Game Developer’s Conference. the Move walks a path already trodden by Nintendo‘s Wiimote, the primary controller for the Wii, and so, one might ask, how does Nintendo feel about this long awaited foray into their territory?
Predictably, they’re pretty calm about it. Motion sensitivity has been the Wii’s claim to fame, while other consoles have focused on HD graphics and processing power, but now Sony is rolling out the Move, and Microsoft is hard at work on its own motion sensing Project Natal. Kotaku asked Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, if this might mean that Nintendo should be looking to move into HD.
“For us high definition by itself is not the next frontier,” Reggie Fils-Aime… told Kotaku. “For us we need to provide a whole new compelling experience in our next generation.”
“When Mr. Miyamoto goes to Mr. Iwata and says. ‘I have this great idea and I can’t do it on the Wii,’ that’s when there will be a next generation console. What that includes we’ll see,” he said. “I think Mr. Miyamoto himself has said that he is very interested in a high-definition experience, but to be 120 percent crystal clear, HD by itself in our view is not enough to go for a new console past the Wii.”
The rest of Kotaku’s interview can be found here.
