Nintendo has transcribed a Financial Results briefing given by president Satoru Iwata. Being a Financial Results briefing, it of course focuses on sales history, but it is also loaded with information that may be of interest to you beyond the charts and graphs detailing how awesome Nintendo is.*This includes Iwata's new philosophy of the roles of Nintendo's gaming systems. The DS is now being seen as a "machine to enrich its owners' lives," in ways beyond gaming. Nintendo's plan for new DS-based utilities is an instantiation of this idea, allowing users to carry their DS systems around for many purposes, improving the quality of their lives. The Wii, on the other hand, is seen as the "Machine to put smiles on people surrounding it," meaning that entire households should be encouraged to interact with the Wii, even when not playing games. You are free, of course, to moan about this being the death of gaming or whatever.
Spreading happiness is the goal of the two new updates headed to the Wii. Check pages 6 and 7 for video of the gift-giving function of the Wii Shop Channel, which will work for both VC and Wii Ware games, and a demonstration of an early version of the TV Program Schedule Channel. It allows users to search by genre or keyword, and to mark their favorite programs with a color code.
*For an analysis of the charts and graphs detailing how awesome Nintendo is, check out this Gamasutra feature from our own Eric Caoili!
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11-01-2007 @ 2:41PM
Jeremy said...
So the TV schedule thing will work like the guide does on my cable TV? That would be cool and I know that many people could think of a 100 ways to improve it like we always do. Such as a way it could interrupt a game to remind us of something we want to watch. I still don't see myself using the gift thing since if I wanted to give a gift I would give a Wii points card.
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11-01-2007 @ 2:55PM
samfish said...
I'm gonna say the DSphone will be on the market by...2009. It seems inevitable if this is the direction Nintendo wants to go.
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11-01-2007 @ 5:23PM
comtar said...
Concidering all HD Cable and Dish have built in TV scheduling I don't understand why it would be nessessary for the Wii to have this feature unless the game system can view TV. I mean at least the PS3 and 360 are looking into having built in DVR, so having a schedule in those systems make sence.
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11-01-2007 @ 7:27PM
Mr Khan said...
@ comtar
A lot of us out here are still running under Analogue Cable
Yeah, its a sad life without Boomerang, Boomerang and SWAT Kats
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