Miyamoto Wants Mario To Launch Nintendo’s Next Console

<p>Nintendo may still be on the rebound from combating struggling hardware sales and scathing criticisms this year&comma; but that hasn&&num;8217&semi;t stopped the company from looking towards its future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Speaking with <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;bigstory&period;ap&period;org&sol;article&sol;56c0fd74d6f5498581bedc1c29a5380f&sol;miyamoto-amiibo-zelda-and-mario-movie">The Associated Press<&sol;a>&comma; Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s Shigeru Miyamoto spoke about several topics&comma; including sold-out amiibo figures&comma; the future of Mario&comma; and next year&&num;8217&semi;s open-world Zelda&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On missing exclusive in-game content because an amiibo is hard to find&comma; Miyamoto said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;In the future&comma; we have the option&comma; if certain amiibo figures are no longer available in stores&comma; to release an amiibo in card form with the same functionality&period;&&num;8221&semi; Wonder how much those would cost&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As for Mario&&num;8217&semi;s next solo adventure&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s likely going to be a while&period; &&num;8220&semi;I think that maybe when we release the next hardware system&comma; you can look forward to seeing Mario take on a new role or in a new game&comma;&&num;8221&semi; he said&period; Nintendo is currently &&num;8220&semi;busy working on software for the Wii U&comma;&&num;8221&semi; but the company &&num;8220&semi;&lbrack;has&rsqb; production lines that are working on ideas for what the next system might be&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Miyamoto wasn&&num;8217&semi;t willing to discuss the next Legend of Zelda much – we recently got a glimpse of it <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;tga-2014-see-nintendo-play-new-legend-zelda-wii-u&sol;">during The Game Award<&sol;a>s – but he did assure gamers that the game would follow the release of his forthcoming Starfox Wii U title next year&comma; saying that &&num;8220&semi;one of the things we&&num;8217&semi;re working on right now is that&comma; as you play&comma; the world will change and be affected by what you choose to do&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;