In the full interview with George Harrison, GameDaily gets him to talk about the new Wii peripherals, Nintendo in the 80′s, the legendary Nintendo/Sony partnership in the 90′s, WiiWare, how Sony was forced to drop the PS3 price, and how the 360′s rush to the market is causing them all sorts of problems and costing billions of dollars in warranties. Excerpt and link below.
GameDaily BIZ: Is there any thought of possibly offering an external hard drive peripheral? If this service takes off and people are going to have a lot of games on their console that they’re going to want to store, the internal memory of the Wii might not be enough, so is there a possibility that Nintendo will launch a hard drive?
George Harrison: I’m not sure whether we would launch it or not. Other people have talked about it and certainly memory management is something that consumers want to think about, whether it’s just Virtual Console games, so at this point we haven’t got anything we’re prepared to say about it.
GameDaily BIZ: And what about the rumor that you, Beth Llwellyn and Perrin Kaplan would all be leaving? I mean, I certainly respect your privacy and if you don’t want to answer you don’t have to, but can you confirm whether you’re staying with Nintendo or not?
George Harrison: I think I’ll take you up on your offer of not answering. [laughs] We’re not going to talk this week about individuals. I’m involved in making the transition happen because Reggie’s the President and will stay in Redmond, and we’re getting underway with a big recruiting effort because, not surprisingly, a variety of people are not going to make the move. So in September I’ll be working long and hard in San Francisco opening the office and hopefully welcoming and orienting new employees.
