http://news.spong.com/article/15961/Nintendo_Iwata_We_Wont_Compete_Online

Nintendo's president, Mr Satoru Iwata (we nearly said, Shigeru Iwata there) has been telling The Wall Street Journal that things are going very nicely thanks.

Sure, the company isn't really going to bother to much with any more Wii peripherals (hello, third parties); and certainly, the Wii Motion Plus (which makes the Wii Remote do what developers thought it could do to start with) hasn't been priced for retail - but "we can make it very affordable"; cripes, even the DS could take on mobile phone-like capabilities. Aside from all that, Nintendo is not going to compete with either Sony or Microsoft in a plethora of online services. Ninty is, after all, "still an entertainment company first and foremost".

In terms of online services, Iwata actually tells Yukari Iwatani Kane at the WSJ, "If we can do something different that plays up our strengths - and broadens what a videogame constitutes - then we might do it. If we have no ideas, we're not going to compete with the exact same services against companies like Sony, which has a movie studio, and Microsoft, which has a lot of money."

So, when he says Nintendo won't compete he qualifies that brilliantly with "exact same services". Nicely equivocated because, of course, 'similar' services would be on the cards.

I wouldn't expect them to compete in the online aspect either, it's not their turf IMO.

I also liked "Sony, which has a movie studio, and Microsoft, which has a lot of money.", haha.

The question was about video-downloading services.

Here is the full qoute:

And instead of posting threads with articles about an interview how about one thread with the interview.

bolded are a few things I question out of this.

1 goes against statement 3, and 2 goes against 3.

if they are an entertainment company first and foremost then why are they talking phone-capabilities and not trying to make a more unified online experience?

Nintendo aren't talking phone-capabilites. That was something the journalist said, not anyone from nintendo.

hahahah yeah I thought that was hilarious!

@ ssj12

yeah I agree, how would making a unified online experience go against the mentality that Nintendo is "still an entertainment company first and foremost"?

Well Nintendo part of being in a competitive market is competing. Ya can't just not compete. Ya understand you have an inferior service but ya think its alright because its free. Damn lucky its free. Not to mention would only take a simply update to just get rid of the friend codes that people hate but I guess that would be too much.

Nintendo has always been stubborn and I'm guessing they are going to be stubborn about this til the complaints become a necessity.

This is very sad that Nintendo do not want to lift their game and improve online gaming.

This thread is not about online gaming.  It is about extra features online like Movies being downloaded.  If you bothered to read the OP or ANY of the posts in this thread you would have been able to stealth troll much better.

People who never did in-depth research into what Nintendo has done these past 6 years will have no understanding of Iwata's words.

Wii Music as well.Nintendo explained what the product did and yet all I hear is crap about people who don't even know what to do.Comments like the "song plays for you and you do nothing" even though they showed that this was not what it did.

You people are just hopeless.I would love to type a page and explain but I'm just too tired.