Miyamoto-san Contemplates HD Tech News

Rumours of a Wii HD refuse to die, even if Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter is the only person that's circulating them.  But it seems that the chatter received a considerable boost, with Shigeru Miyamoto recently confirming that Nintendo is open to the idea.

Speaking to IndustryGamers at a New York event, Shigeru Miyamoto confirmed that the increase in HDTV sales will see Nintendo move along in step with the progression.

"I don't think there's anything wrong with pretty graphics and if I'm a consumer that has an HDTV, I'd want to be able to play my games with nice graphics too. And I think as we've seen the penetration rates for HDTV increase, we're going to see video games and Nintendo's games move along in step with the progression of technology," said Miyamoto-san.

"But what I don't think is necessarily true is that the graphics itself is something that's going to make the gameplay experience better. So we're still going to focus on the gameplay, but we'll take advantage of the technology as it comes out."

Arguably the technology is already out and Nintendo is a little behind the curve on this one.  But at least it's suggestive that Nintendo hasn't ditched technology in the traditional sense entirely.