EGM Talks Wii

History began Nintendo, but will history repeat itself. Last place. It’s not somewhere Nintendo used to hang out. But relative (compared to PS1 and PS2) failures Nintendo 64 and GameCube have left the company-a formerly uncontested console champ-in unenviable territory.

But talking to Nintendo President Satoru Iwata or Senior Managing Director (and Mario creator) Shigeru Miyamoto, you’d almost get the sense that they’ve transcended this whole nonsense about it mattering who’s in first place. For their upcoming next-gen gaming machine, Wii — formerly known as “Revolution� — they’ve practically forgotten about battling rivals Sony and Microsoft. Nintendo’s not after those guys’ audiences-it’s after everyone else. And we mean everyone. If that sounds cuckoo-for-Cocoa-Puffs ambitious to you, just remember, this is a company whose name was once synonymous with the word “videogame.�

So just what is Nintendo planning? Some crazy, innovative s***. Crazy enough to make us think that this little-guy-who-used-to-be-a-big-guy might, just might, have what it’ll take to rule the world again.

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