"Nintendo's philosophy is to try to create new forms of entertainment"
Nintendo's veteran games developer Shigeru Miyamoto has told the BBC that the firm is "not worried at all" by Microsoft and Sony's new controllers.
The Japanese firm has enjoyed huge success with its Wii console, in large part due to its motion control system.
At the E3 games show in Los Angeles, both Microsoft and Sony have shown off new control systems which aim to make gaming more accessible.
Mr Miyamoto said Nintendo was flattered by the approach taken by the firms.
He told BBC News: "The fact that both of those companies are looking at getting the gamer off the couch, taking advantage of motion control, and getting them to control the game by moving their body shows that they have looked at what we have done with Wii.
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
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They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
To think that Sony and MS was going to sit idly by and watch you corner an entire market to yourself...
I dont they wii has anything to fear.
its cheap as hell n it has motion controlls.. thats all the market cares.. not how well motion controls work, they aint gonna spend 200$++ just to get better motion controllers..
Wii has the casual market in the bag.
GJ Nintendo ^^
But seriously, SONY n MS pawned E3..
can't w8 4 uncharted 2.. loving the beta
They should be, at least a little. Both Natal and the PS3's motion controller look way better, graphically and mechanically, than Wii MotionPlus.
lets face it PS3 And MS owned The Gamecube1.5 with their motion controlls, and dont forget Sny did it on a console first
Nintendo shouldn't be moved. Both Sony and MS are in the early stages of their technology and it may not be implemented for a year or two whilst Nintendo had Motionplus coming next month and full games using the controls.
By the time Sony and MS have implemented their's properly Nintendo will be well ahead and can improve their motion tech again and if all comes down to next gen they could easily bulk up their hardware to match the competitors.
Nintendo still has the upper hand as things go.
Oh yer, why was everyone amazed by Sony's demo? It just does what Motion Plus does. The Bow demo was practically the same apart from the fact that Nintendo's was in game.