Today Miyamoto spoke to a Japanese radio station. Here is the interview:
Organizer: Miyamoto San, hello. Thank you to return in our emission. You one are accustomed and we thank you. First of all, that would like to say to your fans today?
Miyamoto San: The question is very vast. Hé well, I hope that they are well, that they have fun with our games. It will be the case I think with our new creations. We sought new things, new directions. Simpler, more direct.
You find that today's games are too complicated?
I am made take a little with my own trap in this question since it is me which designed the controller of Nintendo GameCube! The ways of playing do not depend inevitably on the controller used. A complicated controller can accomodate a very simple and instinctive game to play. Mario Sunshine uses all the buttons but remains one of the most pleasant and easy to handle games. I will like to leave in this kind concept: accessibility. Nintendo always works in this direction.
You thus say that the controller of Game Cube is too complex?
Do not make me say what I did not say (laugh). I did not say that it was too complex, I think just that one can still improve it. And also ways of playing and the controller. But Mario sunshine is well adapted for the controller of the gamecube. The young people have much fun with this game, everyday in the world.
Why wait so many time before releasing a new mario? This wait is frustrating for the players.
Mario is a concept, it always was it since the departure. We always seek new ways of playing, to create something again. We are spirit to prepare something special for the Mario future, of never considering. You will understand, when you see it, that one cannot release such a game immediately. The new Mario game will surprise much people. Trust us. I think that it will open with a new way of having fun. There will be a new character at his side.
Will Mario 128 release on Révolution?
Yes, of course! It is not a surprise anymore, but it will be famous, obviously. It will not be the only surprise of the next year. We thought the Revolution compared to this new type of game. It is there for much in the design, like Mario 64 in its time. But we can't direct our new console only towards him! We work on expensive under development, very impressive products and pushing the interactivity very far. Games of a new era.
New Zelda delayed, it is not very good news...
... I stop you by saying to you that one needs that you have patience, really! Trust us! It will undoubtedly be the Zelda last such as one connait it today. I am occupied personally as, more as in Wind Waker. I will not invest myself any more as much as in that one. We want to make best Zelda ever left. Richest and more the melancholic person. We really improve it in a few months, much more than in one year one year ago! Because now that very finished, all that we make above is faster to build. Perhaps we have an idea of last minute but...
To release on Revolution?
Euh... It is announced on GameCube...
In any case, you like to preserve the mystery at Nintendo !
We will give much details soon. We like to make surprises, it is true (laughter). While our players sleep, we are digging us the head on our next concepts. But while they play, and well we play too!
It is what for you the future of the play-video, in 20 years?
The retroone (laughter). The consoles will reach a ceiling with the next generation, there, in a few months. The future will be perhaps the play with multiple possibilities and unlimited data, by Internet. If we do not limit the number of giga of a play - Internet in is able, not theoretical limit, why not imagine a true virtual universe, where all the players would cross? The play only at its beginnings, is compared of it with the cinema. But all the revolutions are not made that each 20 years I suppose! (laughter again).
Thank you for this discussion, Miyamoto San. With soon.
The original transcript here (in French):
http://salon.p-nintendo.com/news/N-1064063874.html
Organizer: Miyamoto San, hello. Thank you to return in our emission. You one are accustomed and we thank you. First of all, that would like to say to your fans today?
Miyamoto San: The question is very vast. Hé well, I hope that they are well, that they have fun with our games. It will be the case I think with our new creations. We sought new things, new directions. Simpler, more direct.
You find that today's games are too complicated?
I am made take a little with my own trap in this question since it is me which designed the controller of Nintendo GameCube! The ways of playing do not depend inevitably on the controller used. A complicated controller can accomodate a very simple and instinctive game to play. Mario Sunshine uses all the buttons but remains one of the most pleasant and easy to handle games. I will like to leave in this kind concept: accessibility. Nintendo always works in this direction.
You thus say that the controller of Game Cube is too complex?
Do not make me say what I did not say (laugh). I did not say that it was too complex, I think just that one can still improve it. And also ways of playing and the controller. But Mario sunshine is well adapted for the controller of the gamecube. The young people have much fun with this game, everyday in the world.
Why wait so many time before releasing a new mario? This wait is frustrating for the players.
Mario is a concept, it always was it since the departure. We always seek new ways of playing, to create something again. We are spirit to prepare something special for the Mario future, of never considering. You will understand, when you see it, that one cannot release such a game immediately. The new Mario game will surprise much people. Trust us. I think that it will open with a new way of having fun. There will be a new character at his side.
Will Mario 128 release on Révolution?
Yes, of course! It is not a surprise anymore, but it will be famous, obviously. It will not be the only surprise of the next year. We thought the Revolution compared to this new type of game. It is there for much in the design, like Mario 64 in its time. But we can't direct our new console only towards him! We work on expensive under development, very impressive products and pushing the interactivity very far. Games of a new era.
New Zelda delayed, it is not very good news...
... I stop you by saying to you that one needs that you have patience, really! Trust us! It will undoubtedly be the Zelda last such as one connait it today. I am occupied personally as, more as in Wind Waker. I will not invest myself any more as much as in that one. We want to make best Zelda ever left. Richest and more the melancholic person. We really improve it in a few months, much more than in one year one year ago! Because now that very finished, all that we make above is faster to build. Perhaps we have an idea of last minute but...
To release on Revolution?
Euh... It is announced on GameCube...
In any case, you like to preserve the mystery at Nintendo !
We will give much details soon. We like to make surprises, it is true (laughter). While our players sleep, we are digging us the head on our next concepts. But while they play, and well we play too!
It is what for you the future of the play-video, in 20 years?
The retroone (laughter). The consoles will reach a ceiling with the next generation, there, in a few months. The future will be perhaps the play with multiple possibilities and unlimited data, by Internet. If we do not limit the number of giga of a play - Internet in is able, not theoretical limit, why not imagine a true virtual universe, where all the players would cross? The play only at its beginnings, is compared of it with the cinema. But all the revolutions are not made that each 20 years I suppose! (laughter again).
Thank you for this discussion, Miyamoto San. With soon.
The original transcript here (in French):
http://salon.p-nintendo.com/news/N-1064063874.html
