{"id":826309,"date":"2026-07-26T01:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826309\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T01:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T01:48:10","slug":"shigeru-miyamoto-believes-that-people-are-no-longer-just-looking-for-specs-with-gaming-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/826309\/","title":{"rendered":"Shigeru Miyamoto believes that people &#8220;are no longer just looking for specs&#8221; with gaming systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Shigeru-Miyamoto-specs.webp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Shigeru-Miyamoto-specs-656x369.webp\" class=\"attachment-post-image size-post-image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Speaking with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.famitsu.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Famitsu<\/a> this week, Nintendo\u2019s Shigeru Miyamoto shared his opinion that people \u201care no longer just looking for specs\u201d when it comes to gaming systems.<\/p>\n<p>The Japanese magazine brought up how Nintendo has been focusing on new ways to play since the Wii and DS era. That\u2019s when the company really started to make specs less of a focus. Wii was underpowered compared to the competition, but it was still massively successful.<\/p>\n<p>Even with Nintendo Switch, it wasn\u2019t on the same level technically as the PlayStation and Xbox. However, it did offer a new way to play as a hybrid home console and handheld system. It\u2019s at over 150 million units sold.<\/p>\n<p>Miyamoto said the following in his response (via machine translation):<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I was happy that the Switch lasted for 8 to 9 years. I think that customers are no longer just looking for specs. I think the ideal is that \u2018if you buy the software, you can play it on the device you have at home.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Smartphones are \u2018everywhere,\u2019 aren\u2019t they? I think that\u2019s one ideal. But Nintendo has always been \u2018providing gameplay that only we can create,\u2019 including the interface, and compared to smartphones, it has the advantage of being able to respond quickly and having a high degree of freedom because it only requires one architecture and support for one piece of hardware.<\/p>\n<p>If you use a general-purpose device, you have to support all versions, so the amount of work increases. We still want to make a living with minimal effort, to live without working\u2026 that\u2019s half a joke, of course (laughs). But we believe that reducing the amount of work as much as possible is important for making development more efficient, so considering that, I think we\u2019ve created a pretty good environment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miyamoto has shared a lot of interesting comments this one. You can check out what he had to say about remakes <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendoeverything.com\/miyamoto-defends-the-idea-that-there-are-too-many-remakes-explains-why-nintendo-releases-them\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">over here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaking with Famitsu this week, Nintendo\u2019s Shigeru Miyamoto shared his opinion that people \u201care no longer just looking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":826310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-826309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/826310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}