VR is going to be a niche thing. It will never sell big, you may get that one spike here and there but then it'll be over.

lol, that's just sad, you'd rather play a video game than hangout with your girlfriend while she's in a bikini... I'm going to give that relationship no more than 6 months.

Shiggy doesn't seem to be a huge fan of porn games since this is how most devs will use VR!

Well, he's not wrong...

I agree, you can't show of VR to a friend while playing and say see how good this looks its 1080p

That quote is fantastic. Bravo Miyamoto.

I can't see VR being viable for the mass market in the near future, so he's not wrong there.

It'll be cool in the beginning then It'll be as cool as 3D in 3DS is now.
VR in the arcades is something I'm much more interested in.

He has a point, but that's exactly how I feel about WiiU tablet, one guy playing and the rest..... erm.... looking at him, I guess. Dat asymmetrical play.

This is kind of narrow minded for a few reasons. If a console supports VR or VR on PC, it's an optional way of playing games. If you have friends around then you don't have to use VR. If you don't have friends around then you still don't to VR. The point it that you can use VR and an optional way to play games. If you use VR, you are not all of a sudden unable to play games the tradional way.

Miyamoto is almost trying to say that its weird to play by themselve "in a corner" but the reality is that most gamers actually play by themselves. I'm sure there are plenty of you that will claim otherwise but in general gamers play by themselves (either online or singleplayer). I don't mean that your not playing with friends online. Also the GF/wife/dog/cat who happen to be in the same room at the same time also doesn't mean you are playing with somebody. Let's face it, not matter how hard you try to show off your gaming skills, your cat just doesn't care.

Last point is that when you play online, who says that it has to be a lonely experience? I'm sure a VR headset connected to a platform that is connected to the 'net can open a whole new world of ways to enhance the online experience... with other people.

*Sigh*, again a website takes a quote out of context. If you are going to quote something, quote the whole thing!

Times: What are your thoughts on virtual reality today, and is Nintendo doing or thinking about anything in this space? Are we at the right point, technology-wise, to see this become more than a novelty peripheral?

Miyamoto: We’ve been doing our own experiments with virtual reality dating back to the Virtual Boy. And even to some degree, the 3DS was designed with a little bit of this in mind with its stereoscopic 3D. So we’re always looking at hardware and assessing what’s possible.

And of course we understand that the hardware and technology have begun to drop in price. It’s still not at a cost basis that makes it easy for everyone to purchase as a mass-market product. But certainly it’s dropped somewhat.

As game designers, we at Nintendo are interested in VR technology and what it can do, but at the same time what we’re trying to do with Wii U is to create games for everyone in the living room. We want the Wii U to be a game system that brings video gamers into the living room. As as I explained last night [Sunday, June 8], it’s intended to be fun not only for the person who’s playing, but also for the people who are watching.

When you think about what virtual reality is, which is one person putting on some goggles and playing by themselves kind of over in a corner, or maybe they go into a separate room and they spend all their time alone playing in that virtual reality, that’s in direct contrast with what it is we’re trying to achieve with Wii U. And so I have a little bit of uneasiness with whether or not that’s the best way for people to play.

So from Nintendo’s perspective, there’s interest in the technology, but we think it might be better suited to some sort of attraction style of entertainment, say something at a video game arcade or things like that, rather than something that one person plays alone.

http://time.com/2881482/interview-nintendo-miyamoto-virtual-reality/