The president of games giant Nintendo has said he fears for the future of the industry and has warned that it must innovate or die.
Satoru Iwata told BBC News Online that the industry had become obsessed with faster processors and better graphics. He said unless things changed people "would get tired of games". Mr Iwata was speaking after the launch of its new handheld console, the Nintendo DS. The new machine, unusually, features two screens and games can be controlled by using a touch screen and voice recognition, as well as the conventional method of pressing buttons.
"Beef up"
"We are concerned about the current direction of the industry," said Mr Iwata. "Looking at the past 20 years, as long as we could beef up the processing power, as long as we could make computer graphics approach realism, then people were excited about the result. "Some of the people in the industry still believe we can simply beef up the current technology in order to provide a constant supply of games to people.