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Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto

On Saturday, the Merc ran an edited version of my interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s chief game designer. Below you’ll find the full text of my interview, which took place at the E3 video game conference in early June.

(Note, although this is the raw interview transcript, a translator was in the room with Miyamoto and me. The answers were actually the translator’s English translations of what Miyamoto said.

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Q: What was interesting to me … It really seems that Microsoft and Sony have started to zero in on what has distinguished the Wii and why the Wii has become such a popular game device, and that is the natural movements that you can do with the Wii remote. The question I have is what Nintendo thinks about this new interest from Sony and Microsoft in trying to duplicate and possibly improve upon what you’ve done with the Wii remote and Motion Plus?

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First Microsoft unveiled Project Natal. Now Sony says it has a “motion controller” in the works.

Two-and-a-half years after Nintendo’s Wii hit store shelves, the company’s chief rivals have stopped firing at each other long enough to try to match the Wii’s motion-sensing game controllers.

Given that the Wii has been the breakout hit console of the current generation since its launch, you’d have thought Sony and Microsoft wouldn’t have tarried so long. Regardless, they clearly have Nintendo in their sites.

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