Nintendo Doesn’t think Cloud Gaming is the Future

While the company has made numerous mistakes over the past couple of years, there’s no denying that Nintendo’s simple way of doing things is nice to see in today’s complex gaming world. They focus on gameplay above all else, making sure repetition doesn’t happen with its big name games. Unlike Sony or Microsoft, the company relies not on its ‘hardcoreness’ to sell, but it’s fun gameplay with bright and colorful worlds. However, a thing called cloud gaming is rising up. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata doesn’t agree that it’s the future, rather he says Nintendo is working on a future where consoles still exist.

Satoru Iwata: There are things you can do with cloud gaming and there are things you cant do. We don’t agree that cloud gaming is the future and we are trying to work hard on a future where gaming only consoles are not gone. Unified platforms are for us not platforms that are one but rather platforms that have the same development architecture. This also means that there could be more platforms. 

And this part comes from Shigeru Miyamoto

We needed to create new development environments for wiiu and 3ds unlike wii which reused the gamecube architecture. We are unifying our development teams to accomodate this challenge and minimize the losses while preparing the shift. I think handhelds and consoles will coexist as the aim is different.

While cloud gaming might be getting more popular these days, I just don’t see a ‘death of the consoles.’ It’s like books, some might say one day there won’t be anymore print copies, but I just don’t see that happening. Either way, it’s nice to see Nintendo fixated on making sure consoles stay relevant.  Now they just gotta work on getting better launch titles for their systems.

Source: NeoGAF