Thanks to Screech for the link to Nintendorks.com from which the following comes.
Nintendo president Satoru "****tease" Iwata has released another statement about the new mystery product that Nintendo has planned for late 2004.
"Games are stuck now. Game development is deadlocked today. Games have grown in pursuit of more beautiful graphics and more complex systems for 20 years, but that growth is no longer translating into success, and games have stopped selling. The situation won't change if we keep expanding in a conventional way. Instead, we want to offer a gameplay experience which players haven't encountered until now."
Sound familiar? Here's a comprehensive roundup of related quotes from interviews that Iwata has conducted with Nintendorks sister publications Mainichi Shimbun and Kyoto Shimbun:
"This product will enable fun and movement not seen before. I expect it to become a third pillar, next to Gamecube and Game Boy[® system]."
"We want to offer to customers a play experience that they've never had before. We're not expecting everyone to cheer following the announcement. It's okay if ten percent of the people say the product is 'interesting' and word spreads with people finding themselves wanting to try it."
"We want to make a game that returns to the point that anyone can play it. However, our company does not support a product that combines software and hardware into one. The product uses a platform, but it does not fit into the specifications of the current hardware platforms."
"We'll announce the new product in America in May. We use the phrase 'A product of a different nature' to describe the product, but the idea that anyone who plays it will find it interesting remains unchanged. It should be a hint to the next generation of hardware. This will be the year that we put up a serious fight with this new product."