Interviews Archive

President of Sony computer Entertainment America, Jack Tretton seemed pretty unaffected by the Wii U. When asked about PlayStation 4 he said that Nintendo’s new system has not made them hurry up with their next console. I didn’t see anything about Nintendo’s announcement that said ‘Oh, we’d better get working on rolling out a new […]

If you were worried about the lack of third party support on the Wii U then worry no more, because as well as Nintendo securing the support of EA, they also have other developers who are interested in developing for the system. In an interview with Toronto Thumbs, Matt Ryan from Nintendo Canada mentioned that there […]

Karl Slatoff, chief operating officer of Take-Two has mentioned his interest in the Wii U in an interview with VentureBeat. Though he admits that they are not announcing anything yet his words seem promising. “Yeah. We haven’t announced any specific support for Wii U at this point, but anytime you’ve got a new platform that […]

This interview is a few days old, but I thought it was worth sharing, seeing how many people are thinking of the Wii U controller as an “iPad with buttons.” Speaking to VentureBeat, Reggie Fils-Aime claimed that the Wii U’s controller wasn’t influenced by the iPad, explaining that they began development on the Wii U before […]

In a video interview with the publication EFE at E3, Reggie Fils-Aime said that they’ve only shown 10% of the Wii U’s potential off at this point. There’s a lot more to be shown in terms of the games and the experiences, but what we are communicating is this idea of two screens – the […]

I think Irrational Games are being a bit…you know, irrational. In an interview with the German site GamesweltTV, they confirmed that they’re not planning to bring BioShock Infinite to Nintendo’s latest and greatest. Not only that, but they don’t have anything else in the cards for the Wii U, either. I find this a bit […]

In an interview with Kotaku, Katsuya Eguchi more or less confirmed that a Metroid game was in the cards for the Wii U. He didn’t say anytthing about whether it was in development or not at this time, but did talk a bit about how a Metroid title could take advantage of the Wii U’s […]

Iwata found the time to meet up with his investors even through the E3 craze, and Nintendo have posted a transcript of the meeting online. In it, Iwata confirmed that the Wii U will feature neither DVD nor Blu-ray playback because you probably already have something that plays them. Wii U does not have DVD […]

And the third party support for the Wii U continues. In an interview with Develop, the CEO of Crytek, Cevat Yerli affirmed his support for the Wii U. “Crytek’s support for Wii U is definitely going to happen… We aren’t showing it but we are pretty much running [CryENGINE] already…” Yerli, head of the video game […]

According to Rayman and Beyond Good and Evil Creator, Michel Ancel the Wii U isn’t quite a “next gen” console even though he admits that it is innovative and a next generation console in some respects. When VideoGamer asked him whether he thought the Wii U was a next gen console he simply answered. “Not really. I […]