“One of the key reasons that such things as the core and the casual exist today is that we decided not to adopt HD on the Wii console.”

-Miyamoto

“I’m sure everyone would agree that we tried really hard to go wider,” Iwata added. “But even though we worked aggressively to go deeper in certain areas, the general public’s impression that Nintendo was casual grew as time went by.”

-Iwata

Miyamoto and Iwata go on to say they believe the Wii U will bring the two, polar opposite sides, back together.

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