“We would like to create a new trend for our console game business through which we can best leverage our strength.”
☆ NintendObs Event – Nintendo FY3/2014 Presentation.
On the other hand, as for Wii U, we were unable to recover the momentum sufficiently even in the last year-end sales season. We would like to spend one full year to leverage Nintendo’s own strength in order to regain momentum.
Of course, we are making efforts to continue selling the titles already released for Wii U and turn them into evergreen titles. For this fiscal year, we will release two flagship Nintendo titles that are known as games that can be enjoyed alone or with others, namely
We will release the latest installment from the Mario Kart series, “Mario Kart 8,” at the end of this month, and
In addition to the Nintendo 3DS version that I just mentioned, we will release this winter “Super Smash Bros. for Wii U,” the latest installment in the Smash Bros. franchise, which fans have been waiting for, for the first time in six years on a console. With these two titles for Wii U as pillars, we would like to create a new trend for our console game business through which we can best leverage our strength.
At the Corporate Management Policy Briefing this January, I explained that the company would prioritize making and proposing Wii U software titles that can only be made possible with the Wii U GamePad. We are planning to disclose our progress on this at E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) in Los Angeles in June.
I also mentioned at the Corporate Management Policy Briefing this January the quick start menu. The integration of this feature is almost complete, and this is how it will actually work on the Wii U system. We will deliver this update to Wii U owners when we update the Wii U hardware either before or during summer.
— Satoru Iwata, President of Nintendo
Sources: Nintendo JP, Nintendo JP.
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