Speaking to Kotaku yesterday, a Nintendo spokesperson has refuted reports that Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata had recently mused in a newspaper interview that a successor to the company’s DS and DSi would have “highly detailed graphics” and a “sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing.”

Nintendo of America’s senior director of corporate communications, Charlie Scibetta, told Kotaku regarding the interview in question:

“Mr. Iwata did not make any comments regarding the functions of Nintendo’s future hardware systems. The answer to the reporter’s question was misinterpreted.”

Following the publishing of the original article, Kotaku sought to comment from Nintendo in order to verify news that a (for lack of a better term) DS 2 was in the works, and that a new Zelda would be out by the end of the year (another subject of the article), but received no further correspondence.

As the old saying goes, there’s no smoke without fire (especially in the videogame industry), and even if the comments were taken completely out of context, it still gives us, and Nintendo, something to think about and want from out future hardware.

Source: Kotaku