New information of "Wii U" etc. found out, Presentation by President Satoshi Iwata of Nintendo Full text is released

Details of the specification of "Wii U" are announced together with the final form at E3 held in June, new information such as the year-end shopping battle of 2012 and furthermore NFC loading on the controller, one after another, in January 27 Presented at Nintendo's management policy briefing session / 3rd quarter financial results briefing held on Friday (Friday), the full lecture by President Satoshi Iwata on Nintendo official website is released.

Friday 27th January 2012 Management Policy Briefing Session / 3rd Quarter Financial Results Presentation Nintendo Co. President Satoshi Iwata Presentation Full Text
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/library/events/120127/index.html

There are 5 pages in all, information on "Wii U" is posted on the 4th page, and the controller is equipped with the NFC function, and so on. According to the full lecture "By installing this function, it becomes possible to realize cards and figures that can read and write data electronically by noncontact short-range wireless communication, you will be able to expand new play in the game, We believe that various possibilities can be opened, such as being able to utilize as a means of settlement for small fee by correspondenceThat seems to be thinking about how to utilize it considerably.



As for the new network service of Nintendo, the "Nintendo network" which appeared in "Mario Kart 7" is a network platform encompassing Nintendo 3DS / Wii U and it is said that it will develop as follows.


For additional content delivery compliance, please refer to "By the way, if you talk about supplementing content distribution, it is often reported with adjectives "like social games", but Nintendo as a software maker does not know what items are out, Until it comes out, paying many times, that business is not oriented like that it has become huge unnoticed. Nintendo as a software maker thinks that packaged software should be premised that it will be sold in such a way that it can be completed without any additional content and be satisfied just by that, and I like the additional content Those who propose it as a mechanism to let you further thrust and enjoy for a long time with the software think that it can be relieved for everyone"It is declared.


further"In Wii U, we plan to introduce a personal account system compatible with the Nintendo network. This not only improves usability for sharing one piece of hardware by multiple families, but also believes that we can realize and propose a system that can cooperate with various services and contents . From now on, we will proactively respond to the Nintendo Network's name as a service that makes use of the Internet, with many softwares, regardless of our own companyInformation such as "It is also known.

For other information, interesting are the following graphs. I understand sales trends well.