Do The Nintendo Higher-Ups Sound Like Sore Losers To You ?

[Jon-Erich]

Mr.Playstation said:

In my opinion quotes like this:

"We also know that the best way to launch a game like that is to surprise and delight them, to give them a launch date, in an environment like this let them play it vs. what other companies do which is to announce a project that you may not see for five, six years." -Reggie 2015

and this

Shigeru Miyamoto has said that the team decided to focus on the gameplay and a purposeful visual style. Miyamoto feels that, these days, the realistic look of games causes them to “all look the same”.-Shigeru Miyamoto 2015

sure make them seem as if they're not happy at how their console is currently doing and want to downplay their competitors as much as possible.

 

Not really. They've said the same exact thing before. No one seems to remember it and acts like these comments are actual news. Reggie comments about not revealing games too far into the future were also made BEFORE E3 and at last year's E3.

As for beign a "sore loser", it's bullshit. Phil Fish was a sore loser. Shigeru Miyamoto is one of the most modest people in the industry. In that same interview, he flat out admitted that before videogames he wanted to be a manga artist but decided against it because he felt way too many people were better than him. Then wanted to become an industrial designer but again, decided against it because he felt too many other people were better than him. In another interview which came either last year or the year before, he admitted that if he were young again and tried to get into the industry with the credentials he had in the late 1970's he couldn't do it. So there's no sore loser mentality with Miyamoto. He's a nice guy but also very honest about himself and others. 

Also, about the realistic games looking the same, you gotta remember that Miyamoto is from Japan where a lot of these games aren't as popular. He sure as hell doesn't play them. They may look different to you because you play them, but to someone looking in from the outside, a lot of those games really do look the same, down to the graphics, the type of protagonists that star in the games and the way they're marketed.