Miyamoto says next Wii might be more wee

In an interview with Popular Mechanics, gaming legend Shigeru Miyamoto talked about what he feels will be the natural evolution of the Wii and its various control devices.

They have the technology. They can rebuild it and make it better, cuter and, yes, smaller than before.

“With both the Wii remote itself and Wii Motion Plus, what we’ve been able to do is introduce an interface that is both I think appealing and at the right price for a broad audience. And while we don’t have any concrete plans for what we’ll be doing with hardware in the future, what I can say is that, my guess is that because we found this interface to be so interesting, I think it would be likely that we would try to make that same functionality perhaps more compact and perhaps even more cost-efficient.”

Nintendo’s evolutions in motion control has been one of the biggest stories of this console generation. It’s doubtful we’d be seeing the runaway cuteness of Xbox avatars or Sony and Microsoft’s pushes to include more motion control in games if the Wii had been a sales flop. It’s also curious to see how much more “cost efficient” they can be.

Miyamoto also notes that part of the shift in current gaming culture is the number of gamers that are now parents, so they fully understand the media their kids are enjoying.

I’m guilty as charged there. It is an incredible feeling to see my young sons pick up the controller and realize they’re actually controlling what’s on the screen.I hope to be gaming with my grandkids and, from the looks of things, Mario and Zelda will still be going strong even then.

Read [Popular Mechanics] Via [The Guardian]