Miyamoto Still Has Doubts About Virtual Reality

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BraLoD said:
But Nintendo didn't worry about the kids while making the Virtual Boy...

Nintendo was confident that it was so crappy that kids would have pooped on it before suffering brain and eye damage. 

Mummelmann said:

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Miyamoto is a genius in his own right, in my honest opinion, my frustration with the man is mainly from his traditionalist attitudes towards the market. He represents an aging Nintendo who are slowly dying out and being replaced by a younger and more forward thinking one. Basically, him and some others have been behaving as if they still have their dominant 80's and early 90's position in the market, which they clearly don't, and have made choices based on that mindset.

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Yeah, he's still a genius, but he ruins this quality with his stubborn traditionalism, BTW forgetting that in his golden years he was an innovator.

I agree with some of his worries, but I think an innovator like him should not ditch VR, but work on solving shortcomings and possible problems, with a positive attitude and without transmitting the feel of a negative and grumpy one. About local multiplayer without VR, it's quite simpre, VR won't replace it, intelligent devs and publishers will use it where it works well, stupid ones will lose money.