Miyamoto Interview

[A Black Falcon]

What he is really doing is trying to explain the strategy that has led to Nintendo's success in Japan... read it carefully. He says that in Japan, they aren't selling it as a game console -- they are selling the games, like Brain Age and Nintendogs, as products -- that they require a DS is incidental. The people just get the system in order to play the game... they aren't selling the "DS" per se but this lineup of cross-generational products, and an atmosphere of this lineup and the platform it's on has caught on there.

He says that they 'haven't created that atmosphere in the US yet' and that they 'didn't manage to get Touch Generations titles out here last year even though he'd have liked to' (paraphrasing), but I just don't see that as being true... they could have, if they had tried harder. They just don't care about trying as hard here to spread the DS beyond gamers. Miyamoto says it there in a somewhat 'it happened but we're not to blame' manner, but I don't see any way that that could be true...

The continued lack of so many products here proves that quite well enough for me.

Oh yeah, his 'praise' for Sony is pretty... weak... :D... the MS comment is honest praise, though.