Thats great; This type of thinking has destryoed a number of developers cause they wanted to make the most relalistic game in HD. It garnered a lot of reviews but they ended up losing money to a point that they filed for bankruptcy.

Nice to hear they are planning to collaborate with outside developers for the games that require it.

They seem to already be doing a bit of it with 3DS.

He's right though HD doesn't mean that core gamers will instantly buy a game, what he's saying is some games are better off being presentable while using the power for other things.

Zelda, Starfox, WaveRace...

I think titles like that demand high-graphical fidelity. Titles like Animal Crossing, the Wii ___ games, Mario Party, do not need it as much.

They have talked alot of Zelda graphics. Every day I'm more convinced it will be Twilight Princess similar art style. Maybe the one in the HD experience.

It's comforting to hear that they understand the developing a game in HD doesn't necessary mean going the realistic way.

Yes, Zelda or Metroid can benefit from having photo-realistic graphics in HD, but other games like Mario (any of them) or Donkey Kong would, not only not benefit from them, but also get damaged by it.

I don't see why all Wii U games would not be full hd. Being full hd does not mean the art direction has to change. Full hd will make any game crisper and more colourful. Full hd has got jack all to do with realism. Lol.

This worries me. Every Wii U game should be full hd with its power. And that will not affect dev teams or art direction.
I Remember when Nintendo were at the forefront in graphics technology and Mario was the flagship title to show off awesome visuals. When I grew up with Nintendo, ninty was the console to own for best visuals and best tech right up to the n64. After that they gave up.

With the Tablet being a big part of Wii U, I imagine that there will be a host of low budget games like on the ipad. For the purely tablet based games it may not make much sense to put in the attention to detail that an HD title would require, especially if it is an ipad like game that will be sold for five to ten dollars.

No, he is right. Not every game needs to push hardware to its limits.

That kind of thinking will doom even more devs next gen.

Like Iwata said, the big Nintendo games, such as Zelda and I guess Metroid, 3D Mario will benefit from it but some of their other Franchises don't need that.

It's the same for 3rd party software as well, not every publisher is EA or Ubisoft. the mediun sized/small developers should not feel that they have to match the graphics/production values of the games from the bigger devs.

Iwata didn't say that games should be in HD, what he said is:

Very rich graphics and graphics in HD are not the same. Zelda, Metroid would benefit from those very rich graphics if only for the enviroments, but in Super Mario Kart so much work would be pointless, an as such making it in 108p@60fps with its usual graphics style should be the way to go.