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Miyamoto believes gamers are no longer looking at console specs

By Sickr on July 26, 2026

Respected game developer Shigeru Miyamoto has participated in an extensive interview with Famitsu during which he has touched on a number of topics. When it comes to video game systems Mr. Miyamoto says that he doesn’t believe gamers are looking solely at graphical specifications these days. He said that gamers are generally much more interested in a variety of games that run on the hardware that they currently own. He points towards the original Nintendo Switch as an example of this and the fact that it lasted 8 to 9 years on the market despite its aging visuals and performance.

“First of all, I was happy that the Switch lasted for 8 to 9 years. I think that customers are no longer just looking for specs. I think the ideal is that ‘if you buy the software, you can play it on the device you have at home.’

Smartphones are ‘everywhere,’ aren’t they? I think that’s one ideal. But Nintendo has always been ‘providing gameplay that only we can create,’ including the interface, and compared to smartphones, it has the advantage of being able to respond quickly and having a high degree of freedom because it only requires one architecture and support for one piece of hardware.

If you use a general-purpose device, you have to support all versions, so the amount of work increases. We still want to make a living with minimal effort, to live without working… that’s half a joke, of course (laughs). But we believe that reducing the amount of work as much as possible is important for making development more efficient, so considering that, I think we’ve created a pretty good environment.”