When Satoru Iwata cautions investors that it’s becoming harder to impress players due to the plateauing effect of innovation, a part of my brain collapses. When he tells the world that games have been “improving steadily each year, but these improvements are becoming less noticeable”, gravity flips and I hit my head on the ceiling. Do you see the dark, ominous clouds on the horizon? It is the storm of doom that will hit gaming this “console cycle”.
