Nintendo President Expected Motion Competition Earlier News

The announcement of Microsoft' Project Natal and Sony's demonstration of the PS Eye's evolution may have surprised some people, but not it seems Nintendo's President Satoru Iwata.

Speaking in an interview with The Times, Iwata-san remarks that he'd expected motion-sensitive competition a lot earlier form the rival hardware manufacturers.

"To tell the truth," Iwata-san says, "I expected them to come up with stuff like this last year. So in my mind they're later than expected."

But it seems Nintendo's President is happy to see Microsoft and Sony jump on the bandwagon, with Iwata-san exclaiming:

"I'd like to say to them, 'Welcome to the motion-control world!'

Iwata-san remarks that such offerings from Microsoft and Sony strengthen his belief that motion controllers are becoming an industry standard, but suggests that Nintendo won't rely on its head start and allow the competition to catch up.

"I am not in a position to judge whether they are a threat or not. And they should bear in mind that over the next year Nintendo will not be standing still. We're always at work on something new. I am actually looking forward to engaging in that sort of competition, because it gives our whole industry the chance to expand the gaming population."