Ex-Square Enix Dev: Nintendo Digging Its Own Grave

Former Square Enix writer, Masato Kato, believes that Nintendo’s dominance of the handheld console market is about to be brought to an abrupt end. Kato, most famous for Final Fantasy VII, Xenogears and Chrono Trigger, believes that Apple’s iPad will be the one to end Nintendo’s handheld dominion.

“With the iPad going on sale, the epoch of Nintendo is finished,” Kato said on Twitter (via internet translations). “But with the DS and the Wii, it’s been digging its own grave,” he added, with no follow-up as to explain his reasoning.

I’m not exactly sure what he means since Nintendo have been highly successful with the Wii and DS but perhaps he means that Nintendo are now getting over-confident and not doing enough to keep its consoles above the competition. Nintendo’ boss, Saturo Iwata, has already been reported as having said that the battle with Sony is “already won” and that the Apple is “the enemy of the future.”

[Source: CVG]