Miyamoto: We are still working on core games

Filed in archive on July 18, 2008

Fanboy hate is embarassing (image by Rob Howard for House of nintendo).

Amid all of the turmoil surrounding the Nintendo press conference, Miyamoto has come out and made his attempt to calm the masses. And, to his credit, he didn't just shrug his shoulders and diss the core gamer (which is what Reggie seems to do in these situations). He said:

I think that there's probably one other element to it, and that's that our view of how we use E3 has changed. For a very long time, E3 was an event where - and certainly Nintendo included - catered specifically to the core gamer. Now we look at more ... an opportunity for us to introduce new concepts and new types of play that we intend to bring to the broader audience, particularly because of the media that gathers at E3 now.

So while attending an E3 event like this, they might be given the impression that Nintendo is no longer focusing on the games that appeal to the core gamer, in fact we're still working on many of those titles, but it's just not the type of event where we'll be showcasing that anymore.

There there, disappointed core gamer! Your games are coming! Just relax, and one dose of The Conduit and call me in the morning.

Seriously though, I wish Nintendo had made some indication of this in their presser. Announcing the new Pikmin game would have been a good idea also. So much of Nintendo's showing at E3 this year can be summed up with this: great content and poor execution. In reality, we have improvement to the control scheme, voice chat, Animal Crossing and Pikmin, extremely likely Zelda and a confirmed Pikmin title, and of course there's the Conduit, High Voltage's amazing FPS game that is knocking everybody's socks off with its fast play and Xbox 360/PS3 type graphics.

Via gonintendo.