Iwata - packaged retail games aren't dying anytime soon, the 'seeds' of potential fun games have been found

“Already today, a number of people are aware of and appreciate the convenience of online shopping. Accordingly, Nintendo must be making efforts to provide them with the new mode of shopping. Simultaneously, however, I do not believe the competitive edge that packaged software has today will easily be taken up anytime soon.” - Satoru Iwata

Mr. Iwata also discussed Nintendo’s constant push to provide great content to the market, and how this is leading to some new ideas.

“It is always my goal to be able to build development plans so that the company can constantly provide the market with software that surprises consumers in meaningful ways one after another… we have found some seeds of the potential next fun things, and I hope to discuss them sometime in the future.”

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