Nintendo Wary of VR Headsets; Could Be a Nice Addition to Wii U

 

In an interview with Gamesindustry, Scott Moffitt shared Nintendo’s stance on Virtual Reality. They are wary of it and careful, more likely to resort to wait-and-see approach this time. Especially considering their failed VR experiment called Virtual Boy.

 

“What I’d say is it’s appealing technology,” Moffitt said. “It’s interesting. We’re going to follow it closely to see where it goes. It’s got a lot of advantages. It’s got one disadvantage relative to what we know is often very fun for gamers, which is playing games socially in a living room. This is a very single player solitary gaming experience. Not all of our games are fun to play with multiple people in a living room in front of a game console but it doesn’t lend itself to that kind of an experience as well as what Wii U does now. That would be a disadvantage of going in that direction. Could it be a nice addition to our hardware platform? Sure.”

 

Nintendo has always been fond of couch (split-screen) multiplayer so this stance shouldn’t come as a big surprise.

However, VR could help Wii U in evening the odds with other next-gen (or current-gen for some) consoles. Sony has Project Morpheus, PC Oculus Rift and there were rumors of Microsoft preparing some sort of a VR experience.