In an interview with MSNBC Miyamoto was asked the following question about the lifespan of the Nintendo Wii.
How long of a lifespan do you see for the Wii?
Miyamoto answered the question for both the Wii & DS at the same time with this answer:
In looking at video games, and obviously, it’s been a short history, I’ve seen patterns where you have more refinements as you go from one system to the next, followed by big evolutions, or big changes. And example would be going from the NES to the Super NES was more of a refinement, and going from the Super NES to the Nintendo 64 was more of a big advancement.
So, looking at the recent history, I’d say that the DS and Wii together represent some of those very big changes, both on the handheld and the home console side. Based on past history, I would guess that we would see some refinement sometime in the next five to 10 years and then in another five to 10 years, you would see probably the next big evolution.
So anyone here like the idea of no new Nintendo Handheld or Console for at least a few years?
Kinda scary but Nintendo Will release upgrade things for them, take example the MotionPlus and WiiSpeak just announced.
19/07/2008
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