Nintendo’s legendary video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto has taken part in Q&A session following the company’s latest financial results and one thing he touched on is the ability to bring classic Nintendo games to their current system, the Nintendo Switch. Mr. Miyamoto said that with today’s development environment becoming more standardised, it is easier than ever for them to bring their back catalogue to the Switch and their future systems. However, he reiterated that the company’s true mission to is create brand new experiences for its huge user base and when they show off their next system they want to showcase new games which could not be done on the current system, the Nintendo Switch.
“In the past, we provided a service known as the ‘Virtual Console’ that allowed users to play older video games on new consoles with newer hardware. As long as the hardware remained unchanged, those games could continue to be played.”
“However, the publishing rights to video games are complicated, and we have said that we would only add titles after securing the necessary rights.”
“Of course, video games developed for dedicated consoles were created in different development environments for each console. As a result, when the hardware changed, the development environment could not necessarily be reused, and so the video games that had been released on older consoles could not be played on newer consoles without additional modification.”
“Recently, however, the development environment has increasingly become more standardised, and we now have an environment that allows players to enjoy older video games on newer consoles more easily than ever before.”
“However, Nintendo’s strength is in creating new video game experiences, so when we release new hardware in the future, we would like to showcase unique video games that could not be created with pre-existing hardware.”
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