| Lastgengamer said: Iwata was also asked about the measures Nintendo will be taking to combat the NGP. "Nintendo is not the kind of company that thinks about how we oppose other company's product," replied Iwata. Bloomberg was able to get some one-on-one time with Iwata back on the 9th and decided to ask him a question we're sure he loves getting every quarter: any plans to offer original titles on non-Nintendo hardware? Iwata's response was "So long as I am CEO, it definitely will not happen." Source: andriasang.com |
Iwata was choosing his words smart and being a mature buisnessman. He took the high road in this reply. However Nintendo most definatly is considering their options to compete with NGP theirs no doubt about that. NGP is a threat to Nintendo's market share so I'm guessing they have counter measures already worked out to prevent market share from slipping into Sony's hands.
As for classics on non-Nintendo hardware. Not going to happen likely ever. Nintendo has stated that the company would go under before allowing any of its games on opposing systems or third party hardware. Miyamoto has also confirmed none of his titles will ever be on an opposing platform. So of course Iwata is going to say no.
Also it would make no-buisness sense to put your software on PC or third party hardware. Software is the biggest incentive to buying a console if you can get the software on other platforms where is the benefit to buying Nintendo hardware. I think that was one of Sega's big mistakes they made games availible on PC and look where they ended up (No I don't think PC ports led to their downfall but it sure could have contributed!!
-JC7
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