Den amerikanske Nintendo-bossen Reggie Fils-Aime intervjuades igår av Forbes och passade på att berätta varför han inte alls tycker det ser så himla dystert ut för Wii U. Reggie tog även tillfället i akt att påpeka att han inte längre tror att folk är osäkra på vad Wii U egentligen är och erbjuder för möjligheter.
"We rate our chances very good. Software drives hardware in this business. We see it time and time again. We saw it with our Wii and DS businesses. We're seeing it right now with Nintendo 3DS."
"Software drives hardware. And we're having a stellar year. We believe the same will happen with our Wii U business, with these fantastic franchises that we're bringing to bear this holiday."
På frågan om prestandans betydelse svarar Reggie: ...if you look at the last two hardware cycles, it was not the most powerful machine that won, not in the case of the PS2, not in the case of the Wii. So, in the end, it's our responsibility to show consumers how much fun you can have, because in the end, this is an entertainment business, and we think we've got stellar entertainment to make the consumer smile."
Angående otydligheten om vad Wii U är och kan göra kommenterade Reggie slutligen: "That issue has been largely addressed, I think, as we've told consumers all the great things you could do with the GamePad as we've showed fantastic software like Pikmin 3, and Wonderful 101, Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker in HD. The consumer I believe now understands this is a brand new system with brand new capabilities."
"It has all of the benefits of backward compatibility. And we're the only next gen system with backward compatibility, so the consumer has this great library of games from Wii, can use them with the Wii U. But now they understand all of the new capabilities that they can have."
