No plans to replace Wii anytime soon, says Nintendo boss

Wants to work on "maximising opportunity" with current consoles

14 November 2008 15:56 GMT / By Verity Burns

It seems Nintendo are quite happy with its console offering at the moment, thank you very much.

Speaking at a Reuters investment conference this week, Nintendo's big boss Reggie Fils-Aime brushed off talk that Nintendo would release a new console soon.

"We believe the role of a new console, a new system, is to bring great new entertainment ideas to life. We launched [the Wii and DS] when we had great ideas that would benefit either from a touch screen or from a Wii remote," he said.

"We will consider the launch of new consoles when we have got great new entertaining ideas that can only be done with a new console.

"As we sit here today the Wii console has a long run ahead of it... So as we look at the near term for us its all about maximizing the opportunity with the [Wii and DS]."

The Nintendo front-man also made his feeling clear on online gaming and digital distribution.

"I don't buy some of the core propositions. We have seen with our own systems that the consumer wants an experience that today is better delivered via packaged content," he said.

"There can be add-ons and additional content but the sheer amount of entertainment enjoyment — 50, 60 hours - is pretty difficult to provide through an internet connection."

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