The company president predicted that Nintendo will still be around in the games industry 100 years from now, but is unsure whether the other firms will be.
"When I look at the history of Nintendo, I say,'Nintendo is gonna be here in 100 years'. I have no doubt. I doubt Microsoft will be here in 100 years. I know Zynga won't be here in 100 years. I've been here longer than Zynga," he told VentureBeat.
"We're not making headlines in the Wall Street Journal, but we're still building what we set out to build. Now we have to be clever and smaller in how we think, but we're more self-empowered than we've ever been."
Lanning also praised Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata over the executive's resistance to staff layoffs.
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"When Satoru Iwata came out and said people were asking him, 'When are you gonna lay off your development staff?' I don't remember exactly what he said, but it was basically, 'Laying off development is not going to solve our problems. Building great games is what we do and we're going to continue doing it'," Lanning recalled.
"When he said that, in my opinion, he was immortalised in the creative community. I would work with him in a second.
"When a man in that type of position, in a world where the golden rule is the rule and that's what's expected at public companies, he stood up and said: 'That's not what we're about. We're about building great stuff. We have great people to build great stuff. We're gonna do that.'"
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