Nintendo talks about the expanded definition of a gamer and future predictions
Nintendo has recently spoken on a variety of interesting subjects in a recent interview with Nintendo UK’s David Yarnton.
First up, he spoke his thoughts on Cloud Gaming, that is gaming using Cloud technology as a delivery mechanism (read our article on the OnLive to understand more about the “Cloud”) for a future Nintendo game system. To quote: “Whilst we can give people unique and ever-surprising experiences, we will continue to innovate in the way that we provide both hardware and content to them. At the moment our consoles, physical hardware and software provide the means for developers to do that.”
Then he spoke about social gaming and why the Wii and DS are important in that regard. To quote: “Content and the user experience when using our platforms is always important and the DS and Wii can offer a lot more to people than they often expect. Many of these additional functions are often made available, but sometimes in a complicated way. So when we can make them free, simple and safe we will release it to our customers.”
Nintendo made a lot of headway on expanding the definition of a gamer with everything from Wii Fit to Wii Sports and the Touch Generation DS titles like Brain Age. So what do they think about the definition of the word “gamer”. To quote: “We still have a long way to go before we can claim that gaming is a mainstream recreational activity. We definitely think we are only just scratching the surface – and our tactic of expanding the user base and bringing new people to gaming has expanded the market for everyone. We still have a long way to go and it will take many more years before we can consider what we have achieved as being ‘the full potential’.”
Last but not least, he was asked to predict the future of videogames. To quote: “By then I will have less hair, but there will be a lot of people in the industry now who will have retired or be close to it. That means there will also be a lot of our customers who are all in the same position having also grown up with video games. What does this mean? It hopefully means that these people, their children and grandchildren will accept video games as a mainstream form of entertainment just like movies, TV, music and books are now. The industry will be in a stronger position as our products are used across all levels and ages of society and beyond what we can imagine now.”
If you want to know and understand more about Cloud Computing and what it means, give a look at this instructional video. Although the video is explaining it from a business perspective, you can try to look at it from a gaming perspective to get a better understanding of the future of videogames.
Via GoNintendo
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