Iwata: Wii Games to Drive Market in 09

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has recently revealed that the company are preparing key Wii titles that should drive the post-summer market.

Speaking to investors in the financial results Q&A, he reveals how whilst Q2 2009 sales of the Wii won't quite match last year's results, things will pick up after the usual summer drought.

The reason why I said today that April, May and June sales of Wii will not reach last year's results but that the situation will change from summer this year was because the company has been preparing for several titles to be launched toward the end of this year that can drive the market.

Since the software publishers, especially Western ones, are telling us that they will focus on developing for Wii, we are of course hopeful that they will launch additional titles of which I am not aware today. On the other hand, we must disclose our financial forecast by publicly confirming the company's plans with people in the market. We cannot unreasonably increase the expected shipment numbers by relying on software which may or may not be a great hit in the end, so these unknown software have not been taken into my consideration. However, there are possibilities that such titles can emerge, so we are hopeful.

Iwata also gave a mention towards Shigeru Miyamoto, that although games he has worked on turn out to be big hits "he is not God and even Miyamoto himself cannot hit the mark every time nor always predict how long it takes to complete development... Even amongst the software created by Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo, some have turned out to be entertaining enough in line with the original development concept while some turned out to be lacking something in the end."

Thanks to NeoGAF.