Nintendo has updated its official website with the latest in its series of “Iwata Asks” articles, where the firm’s president chats to key figures in the company about its games. The latest interviewee is (amongst many others) inventor of Super Mario and the upcoming Wii Fit, Shigeru Miyamoto. The developer chats about the ideas behind the title and Wii Balance Board, even musing about the possibility of a 1080° Snowboarding game.

The Wii Balance Board’s pressure sensitive technology makes snowboarding and skateboarding experiences an obvious choice in exploiting its capabilities, and it’s a concept that, unsurprisingly, hasn’t escaped the attention of Miyamoto:

“I could make a version of the Snowboard Slalom [Wii Fit snowboard mini-game] with improved courses, or maybe 1080° Balance Boarding!,” he says.

Miyamoto’s comment followed Iwata’s thoughts that perhaps the upcoming WiiWare service would be a suitable platform to release games that made use of the Wii Balance Board:

“I think it’d be nice if some new, simpler software that used the Wii Balance Board came out through WiiWare,” he says. “I think if you suddenly released new software for the Wii Balance Board at full price, the publishers would find it a bit difficult to market as packaged software to be sold in shops. That’s why I think it’d be good if you could download less expensive software onto your Wii instead of just relying on boxed games.”

For a lot more information on the Wii Balance Board and Wii Fit, head over to the Iwata Asks article.