Chris Kohler
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BusinessWeek Interviews Miyamoto

BusinessWeek has what we all wish we could score, on the eve of the Wii launch: an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. And they didn’t waste the opportunity, either: they asked some pointed questions and got some surprisingly revealing answers. Would you believe… that they’d already had the Wii controller design before they decided to scale […]

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BusinessWeek has what we all wish we could score, on the eve of the Wii launch: an interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. And they didn't waste the opportunity, either: they asked some pointed questions and got some surprisingly revealing answers. Would you believe... that they'd already had the Wii controller design before they decided to scale back the hardware power? That the controller wasn't perfected until just this summer? Or this?

Miyamoto: The DS prepared the way for the Wii. The
DS's unique interface had traction with nongamers. That made us think we had a shot at reaching a broader audience. But if the DS had flopped, we might have taken the Wii back to the drawing board.

The Big Ideas Behind Nintendo's Wii [BusinessWeek]