Satoru Iwata Wants You to Smile

Jan. 19 9:20 AM by Alicia Ashby

Satoru Iwata has a lot of reasons to be happy right now. Nintendo is successful to a degree that may end up eclipsing its dizzying power in the 80's, and it has far fewer serious critics. IGN has a synopsis of a recent Yukan Fuji interview with Iwata up, where he says some interesting things about what Nintendo plans on doing in 2008... and what they weren't doing in 2007.

President Iwata showed a soft side when Fuji made note of press coverage suggesting that product shortages were a part of Nintendo's strategy. "[When I see those types of articles], I honestly feel sad," said Iwata. "Game machine production amounts are set about half a year in advance, so they cannot be easily changed. The concept of the Wii is 'a machine that makes people who play it smile.' We wouldn't use a strategy that is at odds with smiling. Getting as many people as possible to show us their smiles when playing a Nintendo game -- that's the energy source that drives us."

Just you watch. The Wii 2? It's won't come packaged with a power brick. No, it will be the console that is somehow powered by smiles.

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