No New Nintendo Hardware Anytime Soon

It’s hardly surprising that Nintendo have quashed rumours of new hardware coming from them anytime soon. In fact Sony and Microsoft are happily echoing the same statements. With such large investment in this generation from developers and the platform holders, not to mention the continued sales success of Wii and DS, it seems there is less of a rush to get new hardware out within the next year or two just to keep in line with past trends.

The jump in technology and visuals is not so big and the need for an ‘upgrade’ is not as great as it has been in the past.

Nintendo was quite right five years ago saying that we have reached a level where simply improving graphics is not the key to growth in the industry. The Wii and DS have proven this with with motion and touch screen controls and it seems Sony and Microsoft now agree and are proving it with Natal and the Sony Wand.

Head inside to see what Cammie Dunaway had to say on the subject.

“I don’t think it’ll be any time soon because even though our install base is, at this point, five million households larger than the PS2 install base was at the same point in its lifecycle, it still has a lot of room to grow. If you think PS2, there’s been about 50 million sold, Wii close to 28 million sold. So that says to me that there’s still a big audience out there that we can access with the Wii That being said, part of Nintendo’s heritage is to always be looking at innovation and to start working on the next hardware as soon as we launch a platform. So we’ll have it ready when we think the time is right.” – Cammie Dunaway