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Nintendo has no interest in the device most believe will dictate the future of gaming

Ben Gilbert

Jul. 7, 2015, 5:15 PM

"I have a little bit of uneasiness with whether or not that’s the best way for people to play," Nintendo's general manager of game development, Shigeru Miyamoto, told Time last year. He continued:

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 [the company's latest home game console].

But that was a year ago, when VR still seemed far away. Now we've got a final version of the Oculus Rift from Facebook, and Sony was showing off full games in its PlayStation 4 VR headset, Project Morpheus, during the game industry's annual trade show last month (E3).

Miyamoto's tune this year hasn't changed much, but the reasons have: "At this year’s E3, I noticed a number of dream-like demonstrations for which the schedule and format for commercialization are unknown," he told Nintendo investor's during a Q&A last month.

More directly: Nintendo doesn't know how VR will make money.

Miyamoto continued:
The current software for these virtual reality devices cannot be played simultaneously by a number of people, and since it is generally expected that the development for the applicable software for a high-performance device will take two to three years, there were a number of visual demonstrations for virtual reality devices.

Despite the fact that, yes, some VR games can be played by multiple people at once (though not within the same headset of course), Miyamoto argued that VR games are not the same type of experiences that Nintendo is aiming to create.

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好明顯TIME同BI都係不可信