Comments From Miyamoto On Wii, Industry

This past December, Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto sat down with the Talk Asia program. It was only just recently translated and (via Ars Technica), CNN is carrying the resulting commentary. Miyamoto discusses the creation of Mario, the future of the Nintendo, the problems facing the games industry today, and the 'awesomeness' of the Wii's name. "I think anyone can enjoy video games. But some people shy away from them, just by looking at the shape of the console, or they think it is complicated when they have to plug the machine into their television set. However, I think if it is something that is simple to connect and play, it can be enjoyed by anybody, especially if they can interact with the characters. We also have to think about the themes of the games. There is an abundance of themes that people are interested in, and video games have only touched on few of them."

Re:I'd enjoy the Wii more if it played Rocket Jock

[Virak]

Go to "Preferences", click "Comments", scroll to the bottom, set "Comment Post Mode" to "Plain Old Text", and BAM! No more sailboats.

Re:I Fell For The Wii Hype

[mingot]

I'll bite, then. I have a Wii (camped for it with my 10 year old daughter). I spent more time in the line than I have playing the system. I have zelda, monkey ball, and (of course) sports.

I bought monkey ball for the GC on the day that system launched and still play it on occasion. The Wii version, using the new controller, was a royal PITA. Sports was moderately fun. Zelda pissed me off becuase it looked worse than windwaker (trying to do realistic instead of stylized on underpowered hardware is a huge mistake, IMP) and had irritating platform jumping. It just wasn't fun :/

With all of that said, I know I am in the minority here.

Re:The proof is in the Wii...

[rjung2k]

"Why would it be a bad thing to link to vgcharts? They essentially just archive Media-Create and NPD's sales charts and have some (limited) functionality to compare the data ..."

Actually, IIRC the owner of the vgcharts site has admitted that he regularly "massages" the data to be "consistent" with whatever "trends" he sees. While it's not like the numbers are pulled from whole cloth, it's sufficiently unreliable that its results should be disregarded IMO.