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Nintendo : Graphics do not increase Gaming Population
27 May 2006
It has been no secret that Nintendo is not trying very hard to win the graphics war this generation. Their hottest upcoming product, the Wii console, has long been attacked for having the weakest graphics capabilities, out of the three competitors fighting to be console war winner.
In an interview with EuroGamer TV, Nintendo UK's David Yarnton, sheds some light on the Wii's target market, Nintendo's goals and hardware choices.
Yarnton claims the current success of the Nintendo DS is due to the fact that it simplifies gaming and attracts non gamers. During the interview, he pointed out that the current worldwide gaming market has been going stagnant, with the UK's "market penetration [not going past] 30% in the [last] 6 years". He attributed this lack of market growth to the fact that non-gamers feel that game controls have become too complicated.
"[...] the touch screen, voice control, all [those] sorts of things made it easy, and I think that's progression we've now moved to Wii", he said, before adding that Nintendo wants to "make things easy for non-gamers, but as complicated as you want for people who are gamer fans."
It is this goal of increasing the current gaming population that has prompted Nintendo to opt for interesting gameplay. "If we only are a second console, if we only [target] same market as out opposition, we probably haven't done our job. What we're looking for is outside of that second console, we're looking at the other 70% of the market that actually don't own a videogame console", he said.
This does not echo the statements of Microsoft's Peter Moore and Sony's Phil Harrison, both of whom have claimed that consumers will surely buy a Wii in addition to his company's product.
When asked about Nintendo's choice to be the only console which does not offer High-def graphics this generation, Yarnton commented that having the best graphics will not help Nintendo reach their market expansion ambitions. In what may turn out to be a hotly debated answer, he questioned, "If the graphics and power of a machine or a console was what was going to increase the market, every time a new console had come out, why hasn't the market increased beyond that 30% household penetration?"
Yarnton does not think that graphics are the key to getting non-gamers to purchase consoles, answering his own question with, "[Graphics and power are] really not the obvious answer because otherwise [the market] would've grown. They don't need that- what they are looking for is something innovative, they are looking for better game play, looking for easy game play, and complicated game play." He believes that Nintendo has struck the right balance between graphics and game play with the Wii.
Will the Wii console revolutionize gaming and appeal to those who have yet to own a console? Conflicting speculation has been rampant; with most optimistic that Nintendo will grab a large chunk of the market. For now, we wish Nintendo the best of luck in their bid for market domination.