During an interview with Popular Mechanics, Shigeru Miyamoto, the creator of classic characters such as Mario and Link and often called the ‘Godfather’ of gaming, said that Nintendo’s next home console could perhaps be more compact, which would also maybe reduce the console’s cost.
PM: The Wii uses a motion-sensing controller. Going forward, as Nintendo releases future consoles, do you view the motion-sensing controller as an integral part of the experience that’s going to stay with Nintendo indefinitely?
SM: With both the Wii remote itself and Wii Motion Plus, what we’ve been able to do is introduce an interface that is both I think appealing and at the right price for a broad audience. And while we don’t have any concrete plans for what we’ll be doing with hardware in the future, what I can say is that, my guess is that because we found this interface to be so interesting, I think it would be likely that we would try to make that same functionality perhaps more compact and perhaps even more cost-efficient.
If the prediction comes true, it could be yet another great win for Nintendo and another turning point the video-game market!
See here for the full interview.
