The pair talk Wii, reveal a couple of interesting tidbits, and discount a couple of rumours.

Speaking to Electronic Gaming Monthly, Nintendo's overall President Satoru Iwata and game designer legend Shigeru Miyamoto revealed a couple of pieces of interesting information. Miyamoto confirmed that Nintendo are not planning to build a microphone into the Wii-mote due to the fact this would make it too expensive. A headset would be better, he claimed, though if made would not be connected to the controller.

The company is apparently still seeing if they can improve the graphics of retro games for release on the Wii's Virtual Console service, while Shigsy also confirmed the company was looking into providing Connect24 bonuses for Twilight Princess. Downloadable dungeons? Extra weapons? We can only speculate.

Iwata said he realised Western third-party developers won't develop games that look the same on the PS3 and Xbox 360 - the latter two versions will of course be running on more powerful hardware. Though intriguingly he commented that the Wii's processors have 1/4 to 1/6 more free power than the processors in consoles that support HDTV, as unlike the Wii, both the PS3 and 360 will have to use around this much to output in HD. He also reaffirmed his view that the Wii will get more exclusive third-party support than the GameCube, which was lacking in this area.

Commenting on Nintendo's goal to expand the video games market worldwide, he said the West will be harder to do this in than Japan, though developers everywhere are excited by the prospect of the Wii.