MARK Zuckerberg’s metaverse plans have been questioned by a former Nintendo executive.
Reggie Fils-Aime, who used to be the president of Nintendo of America Inc., thinks Facebook won’t play a big role in our metaverse future.
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Zuckerberg even changed the name of the Facebook corporation to Meta in order to better reflect his company’s future plans.
The billionaire has been vocal about his metaverse world and his expectations that humans will one day live most of their lives in virtual reality.
However, Fils-Aime doesn’t think Zuckerberg or Meta will play a big role in this.
According to Bloomberg, the gaming expert said: “Facebook itself is not an innovative company.
“They have either acquired interesting things like Oculus and Instagram, or they’ve been a fast follower of people’s ideas.
“I don’t think their current definition will be successful.”
Fils-Aime suggested that Meta, formerly Facebook, is a company that copies, not creates.
He thinks smaller companies will play a much larger role in creating a metaverse world that we could live our everyday lives in.
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Fils-Aime made the comments at the South by Southwest event in Austin, Texas, at the weekend.
Zuckerberg has big plans for the metaverse and wants it to be so good you won’t want to leave.
He recently told tech podcaster Lex Fridman: “A lot of people think that the metaverse is about a place, but one definition of this is it’s about a time when basically immersive digital worlds become the primary way that we live our lives and spend our time.”
He added: “I think that’s a reasonable construct.”
In Zuckerberg’s metaverse, humans are represented by legless avatars.
We have reached out to Meta for comment.
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