Nintendo President Vague on Company's Metaverse Plan

Nintendo President Vague on Company's Metaverse Plan
The president of Nintendo says the games company will hold off on expanding into the metaverse until it can be sure that the medium will provide the “surprise and fun” its players expect.The comments by Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa were made during an earnings news conference Thursday, Reuters reported.This comes a week after another giant in the Japanese gaming industry, PlayStation creator Ken Kutaragi, came out against the metaverse calling it “isolating” and VR headsets “annoying”.In contrast to this hesitation on the metaverse, in mid-January Microsoft acquired game developer Activision for $69 billion, the largest gaming deal in history, as…