High Voltage interview - not concerned about slow-selling Mature titles on Wii/DS, no plans for DSiWare right now, may make more WiiWare in the future
April 30th, 2009
A portion of a Joystiq interview with High Voltage creative director Matt Corso…
J: The Conduit was revealed earlier this month as having a T-rating. Even so, shooters are generally perceived as having a more mature focus. Given this, are you at all worried about slow sales of recently released mature titles on Nintendo
consoles, such as titles like MadWorld, House of the Dead: Overkill and GTA Chinatown Wars?
MC: That’s a great question. Fortunately we’ve done our homework and decided from early on to develop a game style that had already proven successful on the Wii. Although The Conduit is very different in terms of gameplay, story, and visual style from games like Metroid and Red Steel, they are also T-Rated Wii-exclusive first-person shooters and they did extremely well on the system.
We expect that the same hardcore audience has been hungry for a new Wii-exclusive FPS ever since those other games were released, and The Conduit is set to deliver the experience they’ve been waiting for.
J: …HVS has a number of WiiWare games to its credit already, including Casino: Blackjack, Gyrostarr, Evasive Space, and HV Hot Rod Show. Do you have any plans to tackle DSiWare?
MC: No game system is ever out of the question for our studio. We currently don’t have any plans in the works for DSiWare, but you never know what system will make the most sense to develop for in the future.
J: Do you expect to continue to work on WiiWare titles going forward?
MC: Now that Nintendo has released the 4.0 system update we’re hoping that consumers will feel more compelled to purchase WiiWare titles since they can now download and play them directly from their SD cards. If that starts to happen, then it’s likely that High Voltage will develop more WiiWare games in the coming years.
Check out the full interview here, which discusses Animales de la Muerte and more
