{"id":55375,"date":"2013-06-18T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T11:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=55375"},"modified":"2013-06-18T13:38:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T11:38:45","slug":"nintendo-doesnt-care-what-competitors-are-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/55375-nintendo-doesnt-care-what-competitors-are-doing","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo doesn\u2019t care what competitors are doing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the announcements and reveals from Sony and Microsoft at E3 2013, many gamers have wondered how Nintendo will respond; well, they actually don\u2019t care.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said that the company isn\u2019t concerned with what their competitors are doing, and instead put an emphasis on what Nintendo wants to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just don&#8217;t care too much about what other companies are doing or are trying to do,&#8221; said Iwata. &#8220;Our primary focus is to think about and actually carry out something which [another] company&#8217;s hardware can never realise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are trying to provide consumers gaming experiences that can only be available on Nintendo platforms.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iwata also explained that the most important thing about game systems is that great games are needed, and the Nintendo boss reiterated that &#8220;software sells hardware.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The number of hardware selling and the number of people who can experience the unique attractions of the Wii U are going to increase, and thereby the knowledge and the understanding about the Wii U system shall naturally expand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Starting from this summer, Nintendo is preparing for a very strong first-party software line-up that people really want to try out. By selling the software, we&#8217;d like to expand the hardware sales of the Wii U system. That&#8217;s our message.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo announced <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wii\/55111-mario-kart-8-announced-for-wii-u.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mario Kart 8<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wii\/55118-super-smash-bros-wind-waker-hd-details-arrive.html \" target=\"_blank\">new Smash Bros. game for Wii U<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wii\/55108-super-mario-3d-world-coming-to-wii-u.html\" target=\"_blank\">Super Mario 3D World<\/a>, which should help bolster the Wii U\u2019s library in the coming months.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2013-06-17-iwata-we-dont-care-about-what-other-companies-are-doing\" target=\"_blank\">Gamesindustry.biz<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More next-gen gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/55368-xbox-one-pricing-isnt-ridiculous-microsoft.html\">Xbox One pricing \u201cisn\u2019t ridiculous\u201d: Microsoft<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/columns\/55090-the-ps4-might-change-your-future-pc-plans.html\">The PS4 might change your future PC plans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/55360-xbox-live-ban-locks-out-all-games-in-xbox-one-library.html\">Xbox Live ban locks out all games in Xbox One library<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/55355-xbox-one-demo-surprise-powered-by-intel-and-nvidia.html\">Xbox One demo surprise: powered by Intel and Nvidia<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo is not phased about Microsoft and Sony\u2019s next-gen plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":50022,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[153,31,6450,91,73,10354,3787,71,1399],"class_list":["post-55375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-3ds","tag-active","tag-console-war","tag-microsoft","tag-nintendo","tag-nintendo-games","tag-satoru-iwata","tag-sony","tag-wii-u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}