While Nintendo is absolutely a company that is riding high on its Switch console sales and its software sales, it’s also a company that is rather infamous for taking things in directions that they…honestly shouldn’t have gone in. Remember the Virtual Boy? The E-Reader for the GBA? The “Vitality Sensor” that never went anywhere? Exactly. And after their recent financial briefing, President Shuntaro Furukawa was asked about NFTs and the Metaverse and seemed to indicate that they were “interested” in it.
But now, we have a bit more about what was actually said, and it should calm a lot of people down:
“The metaverse has captured the attention of many companies around the world, and it has great potential. When the concept of the metaverse is introduced in the media, games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons are sometimes brought up as examples. In that sense, the metaverse is of interest to us.
But at this point in time, there is no easy way to define specifically what kinds of surprises and enjoyment the metaverse can deliver to our consumers. As a company that provides entertainment, our main emphasis is on ways to deliver fresh surprises and fun to our consumers. We might consider something if we can find a way to convey a ‘Nintendo approach’ to the metaverse that many people can readily understand, but we do not think that is the situation at the present time.”
So yeah, at present, it looks like they won’t be doing anything in this field of play. This is good because who knows where this will even be in a few years, if it’s around at all.
