Namco Bandai put out one Tekken game on the 3DS, Tekken 3D: Prime Edition. This was a traditional Tekken experience. But if another entry in the series were to come to 3DS, it would probably be a card game.
Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada told French website Pockett:
“If we were to make a new Tekken game for Nintendo 3DS … We would do something else. A card game like Tekken Card Tournament is more likely. But, to date, there is no such plan.”
Nintendo’s bread and butter is video games. But one investor, who attended the company’s latest investor meeting, wanted to know if the Big N has any interest in exploring other undertakings.
The answer is no. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata explained, “we should not spread ourselves thin by diversifying our business because, by doing so, we might lose a strong presence which we currently have in the area of entertainment.”
The launch of the Wii Vitality Sensor is “pending”, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has said.
Nintendo has been developing the accessory for a number of years, which was first announced during its E3 2009 press conference. Unfortunately, the Wii Vitality Sensor hasn’t performed up to expectations. It may work for 90 percent of consumers, but that’s simply not good enough.
Thus, Nintendo hasn’t “been able to launch it as a commercial product because we could not get it to work as we expected and it was of narrower application than we had originally thought.” In order for it to release, Iwata said: “We would like to launch it into the market if technology advancements enable 999 of 1,000 people to use it without any problems, not only 90 out of 100 people. I actually think that it must be 1,000 of 1,000 people, but (since we use the living body signal with individual differences) it is a little bit of a stretch to make it applicable to every single person.”
Iwata’s full statements from Nintendo’s investor briefing Q&A held last week:
