Miyamoto - Wii U NFC a top priority, project to be shown in near future, dual GamePad support, E3 vs. Nintendo Direct
The following Miyamoto excerpts come from an interview with Polygon...
On utilizing NFC on Wii U...
"With NFC, that's a feature that everyone that owns a Wii U can take advantage of. So that's what we're putting our priorities right now. We're hoping that in the near future we'll be able to show you something that will take advantage of the NFC on Wii U and people will be able to enjoy that."
On supporting two GamePads...
"With regards to the two GamePads functionality, from a gaming system standpoint we are developing games that will have that capability. In the future, perhaps when we get closer to something that, an environment where everybody or a large majority of people would have two GamePads, that might be a time where we look at how we can leverage a system of that nature."
On saving their NFC project and other announcements for E3...
"It used to be that we would save many of our announcements for E3 and we would announce them at the show, but what we've seen in the recent years is that there are a number of different ways and a number of different times when we have more opportunity to make those announcements. So I can't today make any promises of what we're going to do at E3, but I think, this in particular is going to be a year where we're seeing more regular announcements from Nintendo about what's coming and that someplace within the announcements that we're making, hopefully we'll have something to share about NFC.
But as I think Mr. Iwata has been saying lately, where we do see a tremendous value in E3 is it's a place where people can come and they can actually get their hands on and try the software we've been talking about, so I think that's what people can look forward to at E3."
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On utilizing NFC on Wii U...
"With NFC, that's a feature that everyone that owns a Wii U can take advantage of. So that's what we're putting our priorities right now. We're hoping that in the near future we'll be able to show you something that will take advantage of the NFC on Wii U and people will be able to enjoy that."
On supporting two GamePads...
"With regards to the two GamePads functionality, from a gaming system standpoint we are developing games that will have that capability. In the future, perhaps when we get closer to something that, an environment where everybody or a large majority of people would have two GamePads, that might be a time where we look at how we can leverage a system of that nature."
On saving their NFC project and other announcements for E3...
"It used to be that we would save many of our announcements for E3 and we would announce them at the show, but what we've seen in the recent years is that there are a number of different ways and a number of different times when we have more opportunity to make those announcements. So I can't today make any promises of what we're going to do at E3, but I think, this in particular is going to be a year where we're seeing more regular announcements from Nintendo about what's coming and that someplace within the announcements that we're making, hopefully we'll have something to share about NFC.
But as I think Mr. Iwata has been saying lately, where we do see a tremendous value in E3 is it's a place where people can come and they can actually get their hands on and try the software we've been talking about, so I think that's what people can look forward to at E3."
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