Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima added: “We continue to be interested [in VR] and we are continuing our research”. I am not now able to talk about concrete figures for unit sales, but we are planning for NX to make up for falling Wii U sales.
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“In an internal sales representative meeting, someone projected that we would sell close to 100 million Wii U systems worldwide”.
Game analyst Michael Pachter has been tough on the Wii U over the past few years, but he’s quite optimistic about its successor, the NX.
But someone within Nintendo thought the Wii U would be much bigger than that.
You could be playing some of your favourite childhood games on your phone soon as Nintendo looks to finally make a major move into mobile gaming. Despite the console’s struggle to resonate with the public, however, it still has quite an impressive library of exclusive games – some would even argue that the Wii U now has the best lineup of exclusives out of all the eighth generation home consoles.
To this point, Nintendo has yet to indicate whether or not they will be showing off the new console prior to its already scheduled launch, though rumors from earlier this year have indicated that a sneak preview could be coming. Combined with his previous comments on the matter, it certainly does seem that Nintendo is less interested in going back to making full-scale live-action film releases and instead will pursue more in-house animated content as well as certain partner opportunities that may present themselves.
“Physical controllers for smart device applications are available in the market and it is possible that we may also develop something new by ourselves”, Takahashi said. These two pieces of information, however, give the impression that the company plans to keep its presence in the smartphone market relatively limited for the foreseeable future. Some expected that Nintendo would reveal their console during this year’s Tokyo Game Show, but as reported yesterday, Nintendo won’t attend that event either.
Other gaming companies are pushing ahead with the adoption of virtual reality, with Sony set to release a PlayStation VR add-on this October.
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Nintendo has filed a patent for what appears to be a new handheld device.
