Nintendo: Customers do not want online games
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has given an extensive talk on the state of the industry to the Japan Economic Foundation - including evidence from sales figures which he claims prove that online gaming is not yet an important factor.
Iwata presented sales figures for a PS2 online golf title which failed to match the sales of its offline predecessor (Sony’s own Minna no Golf / Everybody’s Golf titles, released in the west as Hot Shots Golf) as "proof that customers do not want online games."
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