Miyamoto-"video games are not toys. "

http://www.techradar.com/news/gaming/miyamoto-wii-2-will-be-smaller-and-cheaper-643803

This is NOT a toy

Interestingly, while Nintendo's marketing strategy for Wii has focused heavily on the importance of 'play', Miyamoto is still keen to stress that videogame consoles are no longer toys.

"I think originally video-game systems were viewed as a toy, and they were something you played with," said the Nintendo man.

"Whereas now I think we're starting to see a blurring of the lines, where, obviously, the internal guts of a video-game system is essentially a computer, and we're gradually seeing video games moving beyond simply entertainment into other aspects of everyday life."

What this might mean for the future integration of Nintendo's DSi handheld with the Wii of course remains to be seen.

That news is from 2009.nintendoboy16

Does this mean I have to throw them to the trash because I can no longer play with them?

:cry:

[QUOTE="nintendoboy16"]That news is from 2009.PSNIDCiocio313

...i hope the smaller & compact thing isnt true. make a bigger system dammit!!!!

October 21st 2009

Miyamoto tells people that the Wii is not a Toy and should be treated as a video game system.

Cool.

...i hope the smaller & compact thing isnt true. make a bigger system dammit!!!!

painguy1

I don't care about the actual size, but the smaller the wii 2 is the less powerful. that, I care about.

PS1 made that clear in 94/95.PSP107

[QUOTE="painguy1"]

...i hope the smaller & compact thing isnt true. make a bigger system dammit!!!!

theuncharted34

I don't care about the actual size, but the smaller the wii 2 is the less powerful. that, I care about.

thats what i was referring to :P

[QUOTE="PSP107"]PS1 made that clear in 94/95.Fried_Shrimp

Nope.

The right sentence would be "Not all video games are toys".

[QUOTE="Fried_Shrimp"][QUOTE="PSP107"]PS1 made that clear in 94/95.tomarlyn

[QUOTE="tomarlyn"][QUOTE="Fried_Shrimp"] What, by calling itself Play Station?Fried_Shrimp

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I'll just leave that here and be gone :P

For all intends and purposes they are toys.IronBass

Agreed. They are just big kids/adult toys.

[QUOTE="Fried_Shrimp"][QUOTE="tomarlyn"] So music and DVD's are toys? You press 'play' ''To play'' is to occupy, interact or participate with something. In Sweden we have two different words for it, one for adult play in activities like sports or games (''spela'') and another for childs play (''leka'', or something like that I'm not actually swedish). Maybe to avoid comments like that about ''Playstation'' :wink: :Ptomarlyn

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I'll just leave that here and be gone :P

[QUOTE="tomarlyn"]

[QUOTE="Fried_Shrimp"] Play Station has little Triangles and Squares and Circles on the controller representing a childs toy. I really don't think they where trying to do away with the toy image as the poster suggested.Fried_Shrimp

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I'll just leave that here and be gone :P

lol I wasn't saying that at all, but if you want to call out the Playstation controller just for using shapes instead of letters then there you have it sir. I don't consider either to be toys, you seem unable to accept the Playstation brand being considered as a mature product.

Put a Playstation or any other console in the hands of a child and they will consider it a toy, no doubt. But its the Playstation brand, sharp design and range of mature titles that took video games out of the kids bedroom and back into the living room. Having the Sony name alone automatically brought along the consumer recognition of it being a high tech home entertainment accessory.

Another thing that may boggle you, when my girlfriend's nephew comes over and see's our digital camera he'll play with it mindlessly for hours. Is a camera now a toy?

All Nintendo products are toys.

I thought Nintendo products are toys because they're aimed at kids? Playstation and Xbox are toys as well, but not aimed as excessively toward children as the Wii. Their all toys. Hell... I call my Pontiac Trans Am a TOY!! Big boys with their big toys. Nothing wrong with that eh?

He's wrong. All video game consoles are toys. Video games are toys. And there's nothing wrong with that.

[QUOTE="PSP107"]PS1 made that clear in 94/95.Fried_Shrimp

[QUOTE="Fried_Shrimp"] Play Station has little Triangles and Squares and Circles on the controller representing a childs toy. I really don't think they where trying to do away with the toy image as the poster suggested.Jynxzor

I have very much respect for Miyamoto, but I would have to disagree here. All gaming platforms are toys imo.

so is chess a toy?

Does this mean I have to throw them to the trash because I can no longer play with them?

:cry:

glez13

so is chess a toy?

PSNIDCiocio313

Chess itself probably not because it's a concept.The pieces maybe yes. But anyways I expect this whole thing to go the way of "It's not a doll. It's an action figure.", unless it already has. This news is old and the last time it became like that.

[QUOTE="PSNIDCiocio313"]

so is chess a toy?

glez13

Chess itself probably not because it's a concept.The pieces maybe yes. But anyways I expect this whole thing to go the way of "It's not a doll. It's an action figure.", unless it already has. This news is old and the last time it became like that.

"I think originally video-game systems were viewed as a toy, and they were something you played with," said the Nintendo man.

PSNIDCiocio313

[QUOTE="Fried_Shrimp"][QUOTE="tomarlyn"] So music and DVD's are toys? You press 'play' ''To play'' is to occupy, interact or participate with something. In Sweden we have two different words for it, one for adult play in activities like sports or games (''spela'') and another for childs play (''leka'', or something like that I'm not actually swedish). Maybe to avoid comments like that about ''Playstation'' :wink: :Ptomarlyn

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I'll just leave that here and be gone :P

All Nintendo products are toys.

Mr_BillGates