| dongo8 said: Of course he would say that, he's a business man, he wouldn't want to speak poorly about his company so he said that the Wii U would not sell as well as the Wii and he was misinterpreted. However, in my opinion, it's pretty hard to misinterpret "won't sell as well" and "is too similar to" so I would say the original interpretation was right. We can't interpret it ourselves, but I think he said what he meant in that first quote, and that he changed it up during that follow up interview so that Nintendo as a whole would not look as bad. It happens all of the time and is simply a business move. And I repeat, I like where he is going with the company. |
You can't just make up what you want. He was misquoted and he explained what he said in detail. You can pretend that he's lying, but your information if confirmed false by its source. It's incorrect and unusable. It's infactual. There is no truth to it. According to him, he never said it was "too similar to the Wii" or that it "wouldn't sell" at all. It was misquoted. They said he said things he didn't say. They put words in his mouth. That's what a mis-quote is.
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In a new interview, the current president of Nintendo Tatsumi Kimishima claims he was misquoted by Nikkei when he said that the Wii U would fail.
As he explains, “The Nikkei reporter’s question to me was ‘The Wii U is not selling at this point in its lifetime as well as the Wii was at the same time. Why is that?’” says Kimishima. “And my answer was that the Wii at this point has sold over 100 million units worldwide, and even through there are people saying ‘Hey, since the Wii was so successful, Wii U is also going to be successful and it’s also going to sell like wildfire as well,’ I looked at that global install base and said that it might not sell as well. That was my response. Not that it wouldn’t sell, but that it would be more difficult because of the install base of the Wii itself.”
“The point that I was trying to get across was that Wii has sold so much and is being played by so many people, it’s not going to be easy to make them leave that and come to the next system. That was my only point, that it was a difficult task for us to bring those consumers from Wii to Wii U. But unfortunately it doesn’t look like my message got across clearly.”
