Hiroaki Yura, Director and Producer of Kickstarter success story Project Phoenix, recently explained his position on why his popular game will not be appearing on any Nintendo consoles.  Describing Nintendo as a “very old company”and “interesting…not exciting”, Yura revealed that although he is a fan of Nintendo, he does not believe that the company caters to indie games like Project Phoenix, pointing to Nintendo’s recent denial of indie Japanese developers as proof. A portion of Yura’s interview appears below.

The problem with Nintendo… You know, I like Nintendo and everything…but not a lot of people buy it. I know a lot of fans buy it, but there are so many restrictions with Nintendo, and also the fact that Nintendo in Japan does not accept indie games.

We think Nintendo is taking a wrong approach towards games like ours. I think maybe it has to do with the Kyoto culture…very old companies…