Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime said recently that he was “un-fazed” by Sony and Microsoft’s upcoming Motion Controls.
We applaud anything that will further expand the market of game players; it’s in everyone’s best interest. But all of this talk around new motion controllers does make me think about the people who initially said that the Wii Remote was just a fad. I wonder what happened to those people? For some reason, no one’s invited me to a first-hand demo of either of the other motion controllers reportedly in development. I don’t know what they’ll cost, and I don’t know what software they’ll operate. It could be that our current 100 percent marketshare in motion control could lose a couple of points, but… with a head-start of over 51 million controllers, I still like our chances.
Reggie says this, seemingly, based on the fact that he has not been invited to try out either opponent’s motion control controllers. Perhaps Reggie hasn’t been invited to try them out because Microsoft and Sony do not want to reveal their secrets to the grand-daddy of video gaming…?