During a recent Q&A session following its third quarter financial briefing, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata and legendary game designer Shigeru Miyamoto offered their thoughts on the future of the industry. In regards to the seemingly inevitable rise of cloud gaming, Iwata expressed concern over things like latency and connection speed, saying he was surprised these factors aren't being considered as people look to cloud gaming as the future of the industry.
"There are many things that cloud gaming cannot do by design, but this fact has not been communicated well to the public, and I find it strange that many people claim that cloud gaming is the future," Iwata said.
As for whether consoles are soon to be a thing of the past, he said, "Naturally, our stance is that dedicated gaming platforms will not die out and we are determined to create a future where they will not." Iwata also assured the audience of investors that even though the company recently announced the merging of their console and portable teams, "we are not saying that we are planning to integrate our platforms into one. What we are saying is that we would like to integrate software development methods, operating systems, and built-in software and software assets for each platform so that we can use them across different machines."
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