Shigeru Miyamoto on Wii, The future of Gaming and E3" E3 is just not the place for showing core games anymore"

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto sits down with MSNBC's Kristin Kalning and talks about Nintendo's Successful machine and their showing at this years E3.
Miyamoto makes some interesting comments concerning how the current generation of games are going and how Nintendo's competitors have stated that Nintendo intentionally does not cater to the "core game audience". Here's a excerpt from the intereview with Miyamoto.

"The first that I’d want to clarify is that the concept that Wii intentionally does not cater to core gamers is probably a misconception, and perhaps one that’s almost a PR tactic used by some of the other companies to paint us as a company that’s not targeting core gamers. But in fact, while we may not be focusing on the high-end graphics and technology that core gamers would typically be drawn to, the types of games we create, and continue to create, are certainly games that people who play games would certainly want to continue playing.

I think that there’s probably one other element to it, and that’s that our view of how we use E3 has changed. For a very long time, E3 was an event where — and certainly Nintendo included — catered specifically to the core gamer. Now we look at more … an opportunity for us to introduce new concepts and new types of play that we intend to bring to the broader audience, particularly because of the media that gathers at E3 now.

So while attending an E3 event like this, they might be given the impression that Nintendo is no longer focusing on the games that appeal to the core gamer, in fact we’re still working on many of those titles, but it’s just not the type of event where we’ll be showcasing that anymore."



You can read the rest of the interview here