Interviews Archive

Much of the Wii U already seems unusually daring for Nintendo, but a recent statement from Katsuya Eguchi reveals that they’re planning to do something which many would be quick to call downright impossible. With the Wii, we wanted to bring in as many new users as possible and have them experience the games, but […]

Valve are known for their awesome multiplatform hits like the Half-Life and Portal series. They’re all about great games, so the news that they’re looking into the Wii U is probably going to be welcomed by just about everyone who reads this blog. Speaking to Joystiq, Gabe Newell (the head of Valve) had the following […]

The stunning “Legend of Zelda HD Experience” demo Nintendo showed at E3 got many of us (including myself) drooling at the possibility of seeing the masterful gameplay of the Zelda series finally combine with some high-caliber hardware. However, Nintendo made it very clear that it was only a demo, and not necessarily a real game […]

  Speaking to Gamasutra, Satoru Iwata dropped a few hints on what we can expect the pricing of Wii U games to be like. From the sound of it, there will be a much wider range than the $50 standard tag we’re used to, with the price of a game hanging on the value of […]

It’s a possibility that the Wii U will get Street Fighter x Tekken, as Yoshinori Ono mentioned that he would like to get it on other platforms than the ones already being considered. When asked about whether the Wii U could get a version of the game he said, “Well, we’ve already gotten started with […]

While our image of the Wii U’s exact tech specs is still rather vague, Miyamoto dropped the bomb in an interview with GameSpot that Nintendo is not aiming to crush the competition with vastly superior graphics, citing price as the reason they’re once again going to sell the Wii U on its unique controller instead. […]

This news is hardly surprising seeing as the Wii had Netflix and the Nintendo 3DS will have Netflix soon but it’s still good to hear. While being quizzed on the Wii U Iwata let slip that the console would have the service. This was his response to a question on what kind of gender ration […]

While speaking with shareholders Iwata shared the idea that the Nintendo Wii U could take advantage of voice chat and social networking. Iwata noted that Nintendo could no longer ignore the huge impact that social networks have had. “As for social networks, after examining the penetration and adoption rate of social networking services like Facebook, […]

Peter Moore of EA sports has recently shared his thoughts on online gameplay, the Wii U and how sports games could be enhanced by the Wii U’s unique controller. On online gameplay he said that there would be no more offline games coming from EA sports including those coming to the Wii U. This is […]

According to analyst, Mike Hickey if Nintendo want the Wii U launch to be successful they should aim for a pricepoint of $300 or less for the new system. “Nintendo should be thinking $300 or less for their new console,” Hickey told NowGamer. “The ability to successfully launch game centric hardware within our current economic […]