Interview:Fragzone February 19th 2002: Difference between revisions

- Metroid Prime is created for me to like it, but it has a little more amerikan action than before.<br/><br/>

- No, however now we have all the time in the world to make Mario Sunshine a great game. It will be sort of a sequal to Mario 64, not a direct one though - we will have alot of new things that seperates them and makes each and one unique.<br/><br/>

- A tough question. Games exists only to entertain and violence is one of the ingridients. Violence is one way to go, to capture the gamers interest through drama is alot harder. Since we represent interactive media, we have to be more careful, since the player controls the action. It's not like watching a movie where you can't control the outcome, it's the gamer that makes things happen.<br/><br/>

- Many people feel that it's more important that a game is online than that you're able to play four players on the same screen. Online shouldn't be the only thing in a product, instead it should only be one of the ingridients. Online-gaming has the potential to become what 3D became when 2D was the standard, but just like a game isn't good just because it's 3D, it isn't good just because it's online. It takes more.<br/><br/>

- No, we don't exclude anything because it's not commercial, but it gets some limits considering it's gets a small developementdivision.<br/><br/>

- I am mostly a gameproducer since it's so many games I supervise, but I have always a couple of games where I am a bit more involved in as a director. Also there it often happens that I take the role as the proudcer.Everyone here is already under alot of pressure so sometimes I just work as a sort of support.<br/><br/>

- For a period of time, graphics were the most important thing bu now it has - considering a certain level has been reached - become more important with content. A combination of both is the best. Nintendo encourages our developers to spend more time on the content than the graphics.<br/><br/>

<b>You are pioneering and is often the one who developes completely new concepts, how does it feel when you have developed something for a long time and then someone blatantly copies it straight off?</b><br/><br/>

- Doesn't bother me too much. But it's a delicate question. Sometimes when I suggest new ideas to me colleagues I get the answer "That's already in that game". Mario Kart was the title I had in mind when I thought of the many copies. Mario Kart is unique. The next Mario Kart has to change alot since it's a used concept by now.<br/><br/>

- Nintendo makes above all software and we have to be a step ahead. We've chosen to optimise the media, both because of to minimse the cost of the material, but also to minimise the disc burning. So it's good in many ways. Plus it loads really fast. We also send out the message to developers that they don't have to fill every tracks on the disc.<br/><br/>

- Iwata answers the question completly without an interpreter and laughs a little when he tells that there is a hardwaredeveloper who were behind Punch Out and it's the same man who's behind GameCube. I answer quickly with " so he's been busy with other things" and Iwata laughs again. Iwata continues with that there will be more games in the series but he doesn't know when or to what system.<br/><br/>

<b>The car says alot about its owner - what kind of car do you drive?</b><br/><br/>

- (Miyamoto, Iwata and the interpreter laughs - alot and for a long time. Not a usual question to the creator of Mario). I have a Nissan Serena, it's a familycar with seats for seven people.<br/><br/>

- No, we have alot of confidence about that release. From day one we will have a very strong flow of games. However, we are sorry that we couldn't release the console any earlier.<br/><br/>

- The GameCube is created for the gamer. Many developers claims that GameCube is the easiest console to develope for and because of that, you can make the games as good as possbile. Plus it's the cheapest one on the market.