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Fanbyte has had the chance to interview former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé and was asked a number of questions about his time there including his push for diversity at Nintendo of America, what he thinks of the latest acquisitions from Sony and Microsoft, and what he think thinks the successor to Switch would be like. He said that judging from his extensive time at the company he believes that in all likelihood that the Nintendo Switch’s successor “is going to be something completely different”. Reggie reiterated that the Kyoto-based company is always pushing for innovation in gaming, rather than simply resting on its laurels.
If you were still in charge, what would the successor of the Nintendo Switch look like to you?
“What’s so provocative about that question is, again, Nintendo is a company that just believes in innovation and doing things fundamentally different and so in all likelihood, the successor is going to be something completely different. If I were, you know, the king of Nintendo for a day, I personally believe that we’re almost at the point where a streamed gaming experience can be brought to bear.
Essentially, all we need today is better routers in our home and any game including fast twitch games, can be experienced through a cloud stream type of experience. What I would love to see is a cloud-based experience. So no platform in the home — everything is done through the cloud. This way, it truly becomes an experience where you’ve got new content, [and] you’ve got the best of all of the old content that’s made available through some sort of subscription service. That’s what I would do. But candidly, I don’t think the router improvement is going to happen for another probably three to four years. So that’s when I would bring the successor platform to bear.”