Iwata-san Disses iPad, Questions 3D, Denies Motion DS2+Wii HD News

In the past Nintendo's Satoru Iwata has expressed both praise and criticism towards Apple, however recent comments seem to suggest he won't be adding an iPad to his collection of Apple products.

''It was a bigger iPod Touch,'' Iwata claimed in a report on The New York Times.  ''There were no surprises for me,'' he later added.

Nintendo and Apple have shared a mutal appreciation of each other in the past, although back in 2009 Iwata expressed concerns that the two companies were being pitched as competitors.

"Quite recently, media have been reporting that iPhone is a rival to Nintendo DS, but I do not strongly agree mainly because of the difference in the customers," he claimed in an investors Q&A.

"My impression as the person who has used iPhone is, it is very attractive but, frankly, I did not feel that it was designed to be appreciated by a wide variety of people like how Nintendo has been designing its products."

In the same New York Times article Iwata questioned the move to 3D, largely being championed by Sony as the future of entertainment.

''I have doubts whether people will be wearing glasses to play games at home. How is that going to look to other people?'' he told reporters at a Tokyo hotel, seemingly unmoved by the thought of waggling Wii Remotes.

Finally he continued to pour cold water over recent suggestions that a DS successor would feature motion sensitive technology and that a Wii HD was in the works.

''I question whether those features would be enough to get people to buy new machines,'' he claimed when asked about such developments.