Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo's Lead Designer, spoke with The New York Times about the current state of the Wii U. He is not concerned with the current sales, though he did originally expect it to have sold better. He is confident that the Wii U has a long future.

    "I think that the Wii U still has a long future," said Miyamoto. "We really view it as being the ideal device that families are going to want to have connected to that screen in the living room that everyone is going to gather around and watch."

     "Certainly in the short term I would want to see it performing with probably a little more momentum," he continued. "I think in the long term I’m not at a point where I’m concerned yet."

     Miyamoto did mention that Nintendo has not focused on online play, because he feels the audience who would have enjoyed it in the past would have been small. However, that has changed and Nintendo is going to grow its online play.

     "For a long time at Nintendo we didn’t focus as much on online play because for many years doing so would have limited the size of the audience that could enjoy those features," he said. "But certainly now we see that so many people are connected to the internet. It opens up a tremendous amount of possibilities."

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      任天堂公司首席游戏设计师宫本茂在接受纽约时报采访时谈到了WIIU主机的销售现状。尽管WIIU的销售业绩没有达到宫本的预期，但他对WIIU的销售现状并不十分担忧。茂哥对WIIU的光明前景充满信心。

     “我认为WIIU仍然拥有一个长久的未来，WIIU在开发者眼中绝对是一台适合家庭成员在卧室聚集，围观一起游戏的理想平台。”（汗,怎么这么像在说鬼子伦理片）

     “短期内我希望看到WIIU能积聚更好的人气，长远来看并没有任何一点能使我特别担忧。”大神如是说。

      宫本茂特别提到先前任天堂对在线游戏并不热衷，主要原因在于过去热衷于在线游戏的玩家只能说是小众，然而，现在形势已经变化，任天堂正在增加在线游戏的研发力度。

     “因为热衷在线游戏的玩家人数有限，任天堂长期以来没有太注重该类游戏。不过，现在我们已经注意到在线游戏的潜在价值和日渐增长的玩家数量，它将开启一扇充满万般可能的大门”