"When all is said and done, I think Miyamoto will be remembered for Wii Fit more than Mario and Zelda. While Mario and Zelda were revolutionary, Wii Fit is far more so. This likely doesn’t make sense today, but you will see. Making video games as a tool to help one’s health will likely be remembered as the most revolutionary game in the last twenty years. That game is going to spawn a new sister industry next to the game industry."
^^Malstrom said that in June of this year. Somebody should ask him why the guy most responsible for "the most revolutionary game in the last twenty years" should now retire 2 years after it was completed. Just because Wii Music helped destroy Wii momentum, and Miyamoto still believes in a future for UGC?
What did Malstrom say about Wii Music before it was released, anyways?
"After a history of successes that stretch before most gamers were born, it fascinates me that gamers still think they know more about making games than Shigeru Miyamoto.
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Whether Wii Music is a success in sales or not does not dispute the fact that the game is a work of genius. It is reflecting something no game has before.
The hardcore will not like this conclusion, but truth must be told or else we become guilty of self-censure: Wii Music is the closest video game ever to become ‘art’. History will judge Wii Music favorably even if the historians don’t."
Ah. So Wii Music is the greatest work of artistic genius in the history of videogames regardless of how well it sells or what "historians" say in the future. And furthermore, gamers should not think they know better than Miyamoto.
Now excuse me, Malstrom has new content up I must read.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
