Nintendo boss man Satoru Iwata made no effort to hide his underwhelming opinion of Apple's new iPad.
"It was a bigger iPod Touch," he said, following the revealing of the new gadget earlier this week and the internet-conquering hype that surrounded it.
"There were no surprises for me," he said later in the interview (AP via NY Times).
Iwata went on to express little faith in stereoscopic 3D, which is all the rage this year. "I have doubts whether people will be wearing glasses to play games at home. How is that going to look to other people?" Probably just as daft as waving a Wii Remote around?
We don't care what we look like to other people in the house - 3D is going to be awesome. God help our bank accounts.
Have to agree with theman about the iPad... a dissapointment considering the hpye and hoopla surrounding it. Perhaps I'll feel differently once some iPad specific games are released.
As for 3D, that's something I'm really looking forward to! if they can get the depth of field to look right, playing an FPS is going to be amazing!
I was impressed by Avatar 3D, but I did have mild headache afterwards. If this happens all the time after a couple of hours viewing 3D, I'll give it a miss.
I'm sorry but 3d is a false dawn. You can't have fast moving images in 3d, it just turns into a mess. Even during Avatar,which was specifically shot for 3d,got blurry when too much was going on. A 3d FPS is just going to make people sick.
"I have doubts whether people will be wearing glasses to play games at home. How is that going to look to other people?"
- did he not maybe mean what the screen would look like to other people in the room? Sort of the problem of isolating gamers.
That's the impression I got. It would be strange if he was questioning how people would look wearing 3D glasses when he wears normal glasses himself...
While I agree with him on this one, I must admit there have been a lot of stories about this guy being unimpressed with other companies' products. Particularly ones which could poke into the new casual gaming market that the Wii dominates. PS3 motion control, Natal, iPad - all shockingly frowned upon by Mr Nintendo. I'd listen to him more if he didn't sound like a broken record...
I agree with this man. 3D glasses are moronic, and the iPad's too big. You're better off getting a high-end netbook for the same price. They're better off perfecting the iPhone and making VR games.
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