Interesting interview. Thanks for the link!
Reggie is being vague most of the time though... I think this is why stocks don't pick up. Investors (and gamers) sense that Nintendo is in a difficult position and is still looking for solutions. For WiiU he seems to bet everything on a "spectacular innovation" that would make casual gamers upgrade from Wii to WiiU, but he overlooks two things :
- Consumers as whole are more price sensitve that content oriented (the hardware lift in the wake of Wii pricecut proves that) so if WiiU is price significantly higher than PS3/360 the launch will fail.
- Casual gamers, unlike hardcore gamer, don't see gaming as an important leisure. Thus they don't necesserily need to upgrade to the next generation (3DS shows that so far)
He remained very evasive on how WiiU can appeal to core gamers, or 3DS for that matters. He makes it like Zelda and Mario alone can rebuild a 150M userbase, it's a bit naive....
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