As we reported yesterday, Nintendo has had a pretty terrible fiscal year, primarily due to the failures of the Nintendo 3DS.
While boss Satoru Iwata blamed the 3DS price drop, he has now gone more in line with the Japanese way, and blamed himself.
“To begin with, I feel greatly accountable for missing our financial forecast for the half-year ended September and revising downward our forecast for the full year.”
“Strong momentum is very important for game platform businesses and a strong software lineup to vitalize a platform is necessary to maintain this momentum. In the first half of this year, however, we could not make the continuing sales of the first-party software released last year as we had planned, nor, in the course of preparation of the next platform, could we release new key titles for the existing platform in a timely fashion due to completion delays until the latter half of this year.”
“As we learned a bitter lesson with the launch of the Nintendo 3DS, we are trying to take every possible measure so that the Wii U will have a successful launch.”
A lot is on the line for Nintendo with the Wii U, as another failure could spell serious trouble for the gaming powerhouse. In order to ensure success, Nintendo hopes to attract more people by introducing new genres.
“Some of you may be thinking that, with the expansion of smartphones today, proposing new genres, such as the company did with Brain Training and Wii Fit, might be difficult,” Iwata admitted.
“However, the company will aim to develop and launch products that can provide meaningful surprises to the public by taking advantage of the company’s position of being able to make new proposals that integrate both hardware and software, and of its ability to develop products that can be accepted by a wide variety of consumers, irrespective of age, gender or past gaming experience.”
It’s certainly a highly anticipated console, and this kind of pressure makes it all the more interesting. Nintendo have confirmed that they will be revealing more details on the Wii U at E3 2012, so we’ll have to wait until then to see what they have in store.
Source: Industrygamers
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