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Reggie Describes Vision For Wii U Online
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has already said that the company's goal with Wii U is not to dominate the online market. However, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime admits that a good online strategy is important.
In an interview with Forbes, Fils-Aime explains that while offering an Xbox Live-style experience isn't the idea, Nintendo is working to improve its online approach:
We’ve seen what our competitors have done, and we’ve acknowledged that we need to do more online, starting with the launch of our eShop on Nintendo 3DS, and we’re going to continue to build our online capability. For Wii U, we’re going to take that one step further, and what we’re doing is creating a much more flexible system that will allow the best approaches by independent publishers to come to bear. So instead of a situation where a publisher has their own network and wants that to be the predominant platform, and having arguments with platform holders, we’re going to welcome that. We’re going to welcome that from the best and the brightest of the third party publishers.
At least Nintendo seems to be giving due consideration to Wii U's online service, which is more than can be said for the company's previous consoles. Check out the full interview to read more of Fils-Aime's thoughts on topics like the 3DS and Netflix.
[Source: Forbes]
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