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The president of Nintendo says the games institution volition clasp disconnected connected expanding into the metaverse until it tin beryllium definite that the mean volition supply the "surprise and fun" its players expect.
The comments by Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa were made during an net quality league Thursday, Reuters reported.
This comes a week aft different elephantine successful the Japanese gaming industry, PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, came retired against the metaverse calling it “isolating” and VR headsets “annoying”.
Historically, Nintendo has been highly protective of its intelligence spot (IP) and prefers to support it in-house alternatively than licensing it to 3rd parties. On expanding Nintendo’s empire done licensing, Furukawa said: "It wouldn't beryllium a positive to abruptly bring successful radical who don't person Nintendo's mode of thinking."
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