Tired of Kuturagi's insanity, here's Miyamoto...

[johnlucas]

fooflexible said:

I hate when the headlines kind of portray a false picture. I don't think for a second this comment was mean to sound arrogent like it comes off by itself. He clearly is saying only go in that direction creatively if you love that kind of game experience. He's more or least saying "be true to yourself" Or "don't sell out". Hence he tends to focus on the concepts he loves, thats why you get games like Pikimin that are based on his gardening experience. All though for the record I'd love to see Miyamato make a Haloesque game.

On a side note how uptight it Nintendo? I know after Pokemon sold a million units in America they were like, "never mind that why aren't you guys selling a bizillion copies of Brain Age?" and now they're after japan about Zelda. They're the only company in the world that is cranky about only selling a few million copies of a game. It's like relax. I know Miyamato is always searching for the next big thing. He used to always talk about the Tomagachi rage and how he wanted to create things to mimick that. Although I think Pokemon has got tomagachi beat.

This is how Nintendo got to be the best developer in the business that's created this *false* conventional wisdom that 3rd parties don't like Nintendo systems because their games can't compete with Nintendo's. Conventional wisdom is the worst "wisdom" of all by the way.

Kudos to any company seeking to improve itself. Quality is part of their reputation and they like to get their games as well-received as they possibly can. I knew looking over the months at Twilight Princess's Japan sales that Nintendo was not happy with that output in the least. I was so surprised about it that I wrote a thread looking into the history of Zelda in Japan not long ago based on VGChartz figures. Zelda's name isn't quite as big there as it is here. The original and Ocarina of Time were the highest entries of that region. All Zelda games are excellent (save for those CD-i entries) but Japan simply isn't as behind this franchise like we are. I know that bothers Nintendo seeing as the Zelda universe is probably its second most notable mascot franchise.

I'm sure they will review what's going on here & the next Zelda will have a fresh direction. Seeing what's wrong and trying to remedy it is how you become the best in your field. That's a good thing in my view.

John Lucas