President of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has told IGN that his company needs Nintendo to thrive for the sake of the video game industry. In order to preserve traditional gaming – via dedicated controllers with actual buttons and analog sticks – the executive suggests that Nintendo and Sony must coexist in a world where touch-based gaming by way of smartphones and tablets continues to gain popularity. Yoshida, who owns two Wii U consoles, classifies both firms as being in the same category and not as direct competitors.

 

Yoshida: “Well I have two Wii Us. I play Wii U games with my daughters, because they make pretty fun family friendly games.

 

“I think success or making mistakes depends on how you set your goal. I don’t know what was Nintendo’s goal when they launched Wii U. To me, it was a bit confusing because what they do really well was create some very safe environment for anyone, especially children to enjoy games like induct those people who have never played games ever to become gamers. And they always do very well.

 

“To me, what they have made with Wii U was continuing what they were doing well. But the messaging when they were saying ‘we are for core gamers’ was a bit confusing. But this year I think they slightly changed their messaging, and it seems to me like they are coming back to where they are focused.

 

“When you look at the situation around Nintendo that way, do you characterize Nintendo as our competition? I think in the bigger scale of things happening in the industry or tech or people’s lives, how they play games on what device, and how they start to learn to play games, I think Nintendo and us are pretty much in the same group, and we need Nintendo to be very successful to help induct as many consumers who like to play games with controllers, right?”

 

 

Source: http://mynintendonews.com/2013/11/13/sony-we-need-nintendo-to-be-very-successful/#comments

 

 

 

See? This just goes to show that without Nintendo. Sony wouldn't be making consoles right now.

I thought it was because if a disagreenebt between Nintendo, and Sony about a cd-add on that cause Sony to make consoles?

President of Sony Worldwide Studios Shuhei Yoshida has told IGN that his company needs Nintendo to thrive for the sake of the video game industry. In order to preserve traditional gaming – via dedicated controllers with actual buttons and analog sticks – the executive suggests that Nintendo and Sony must coexist in a world where touch-based gaming by way of smartphones and tablets continues to gain popularity. Yoshida, who owns two Wii U consoles, classifies both firms as being in the same category and not as direct competitors.Yoshida: “Well I have two Wii Us. I play Wii U games with my daughters, because they make pretty fun family friendly games.“I think success or making mistakes depends on how you set your goal. I don’t know what was Nintendo’s goal when they launched Wii U. To me, it was a bit confusing because what they do really well was create some very safe environment for anyone, especially children to enjoy games like induct those people who have never played games ever to become gamers. And they always do very well.“To me, what they have made with Wii U was continuing what they were doing well. But the messaging when they were saying ‘we are for core gamers’ was a bit confusing. But this year I think they slightly changed their messaging, and it seems to me like they are coming back to where they are focused.“When you look at the situation around Nintendo that way, do you characterize Nintendo as our competition? I think in the bigger scale of things happening in the industry or tech or people’s lives, how they play games on what device, and how they start to learn to play games, I think Nintendo and us are pretty much in the same group, and we need Nintendo to be very successful to help induct as many consumers who like to play games with controllers, right?”Source: http://mynintendonews.com/2013/11/13/sony-we-need-nintendo-to-be-very-successful/#commentsSee? This just goes to show that without Nintendo. Sony wouldn't be making consoles right now.

Well, the PlayStation was created after a bad deal between Nintendo and Sony in the first place.  Yoshida has stated several times his enjoyment of the Nintendo consoles and games. In fact, he owns at least one of every Nintendo console, last time I checked. I get where he's coming from though. Sony needs Nintendo, not for the consoles, but to induct gamers who like playing their games using controllers. I believe Sony and Nintendo are on great terms right now. It's Microsoft we have to look at. Of course, with the flip of a switch again, Microsoft could kill their gaming consoles with the Xbox One. They're treading on thin ice at the moment.

Well, the PlayStation was created after a bad deal between Nintendo and Sony in the first place.  Yoshida has stated several times his enjoyment of the Nintendo consoles and games. In fact, he owns at least one of every Nintendo console, last time I checked. I get where he's coming from though. Sony needs Nintendo, not for the consoles, but to induct gamers who like playing their games using controllers. I believe Sony and Nintendo are on great terms right now. It's Microsoft we have to look at. Of course, with the flip of a switch again, Microsoft could kill their gaming consoles with the Xbox One. They're treading on thin ice at the moment.

I agree, it's not like Sony and Nintendo are doing horrible...The one that needs to get itself together right now is Microsoft since they are on a tight rope with the Xbone and that can turn into a bad situation in a second after the mess they did to it....

In most areas healthy competition is needed to drive them forward otherwise it's just one massive monopoly who can charge any price they desire for their products.  

Why does there need to be a genuine competition? They both make good games, they both have excellent properties and companies to use. Why is there even a sense that you have to explain that 'OH, WELL, SONY WOULDN'T BE ANYWHERE WITHOUT NINTENDO!' Does it matter? I enjoy them both. This sense that people have to justify their console purchases by bashing the other companies is nonsensical. You made your purchase, stop shitting on what other people like. You can always buy their stuff later. 

Edited November 13, 201311 yr by Kaweebo

I like this forum topic! Around the internet you find alot of people spouting doom and gloom for Nintendo and the Wii U. I have even seen one or two saying Nintendo would need to abandon the Wii U! Its good to see that there are people out there who have other opinions, even Executives of other companies!!!

Why does there need to be a genuine competition? They both make good games, they both have excellent properties and companies to use. Why is there even a sense that you have to explain that 'OH, WELL, SONY WOULDN'T BE ANYWHERE WITHOUT NINTENDO!' Does it matter? I enjoy them both. This sense that people have to justify their console purchases by bashing the other companies is nonsensical. You made your purchase, stop shitting on what other people like. You can always buy their stuff later. 

Well, I mainly said this because there are always those Sony fanboys that bash Nintendo and say their systems and games suck. When they make innovative, and amazing consoles/games. I'm just tired of seeing all the hate  that the Sony fanboys bring to Nintendo. But I agree with what you said as well.

We always need competition.

I always thought this was the situation. Without competition in an Economy, what could drive one team to do better than the other?

Yet the Sony fanboys will still bash the Wii U...

 

I actually thought this was really interesting, I had no clue that the president of Sony like the Wii U so much, especially considering he has not one, but two. I wonder what this could end up leading to between the companies? Imagine a system with the power of a Sony console and the innovation of a Nintendo console... They'd run any competition into the dust. ._.