He acknowledges the Wii Us problems, but says the company intends to keep making software for the console
As you know within the game business momentum is key, says Kimishima when I ask how long the Wii U will remain a core Nintendo platform. When you have momentum, whether its a platform or software, sales increase. At this point in the Wii U lifespan, were looking at 10 million sell-through for the hardware itself, which is just about a tenth of what we sold overall for Wii.
What I want to do, I think our first job right now is to make sure that the customers, those 10 million customers who have a Wii U at home have software to play. And we need to make sure that they are satisfied with their purchase and continue to enjoy playing on this platform. So we cant just abandon them and say Hey, its time to move on to the next thing. Of course we are working on NX and looking at the experiences we can bring to that platform. But first our job at this point is to support the consumers who have purchased Wii U and make sure that they have software experiences available to them.
