Nintendo Canada talk about current/next gen

Pierre-Paul Trepanier, company representative for Nintendo Canada, recently spoke to Canadian website exclaim on the company’s past and present consoles.

Trepanier explained how the Gamecube failed to keep up momentum after its launch in 2001. “We came out with a few titles at launch, one or two of which were pretty good, but there weren’t tons of them and there weren’t killer apps in every genre,” he explained. “Then we went silent for six months and had nothing happening on GameCube. That was devastating.”

He also spoke on how Nintendo have deviated from their competition for next gen, adding “Sony and Microsoft are headed down one road,” he stated. “Their vision for videogames is more pixels, more polygons, it’s about clock speed and millihertz and more technology in the box. Microsoft wants a foothold in your living room to have leverage in controlling the operating system of your future media centre, whereas Sony wants its proprietary future hi-def Blu-Ray DVD system to become the de facto standard. Their golden egg is somewhere other than gaming. At Nintendo, we’ve always been just about gaming.”

The full report can be read here.