ryuzaki57 said:
DevilRising said:
I think some people are not really getting where Miyamoto comes from when he says these types of things. He's not us. He's not a gamer. He didn't grow up playing and loving video games. He went to art school, became a designer. Worked for Nintendo, got put on their burgeoning video game unit, and the rest is history. When he designs games, he always thinks of the gameplay ideas first, before anything else, be it characters, story, setting, you name it.
When he created Zelda, he wanted to recreate his childhood adventures off in the backwoods near his home. He wanted to recreate that free-roaming sense of exploration. When he created Pikmin, he was really into gardening, and started imagining Pikmin and the like as an extension of that. He created Wii Fit because he was really getting into fitness and weighing himself. Etc. etc.
So when he approaches making a new game in one of Nintendo's franchises, he doesn't look at it like we do, from a fan's perspective. He always tries to justify making a new game by trying to think up some new experience that he could put in it. They don't ALWAYS work out amazing, but more often than not, they work out fine. He's had far more successes than failures, that's for sure. And when it comes to something like F-Zero, I think he tends to not really be interested in just giving us more of the same with better graphics. That's what I believe he was trying to convey. "How can we make the next F-Zero installment special, and not just more of the same?"
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Isn't that what Nintendo is doing with ? Furthermore, you seem to imply that Miyamoto is disconnected from the reality of the market...
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I will outright say it, while Miyamoto is a visionary and probably one of the top 3 most important people in the history of console video games, I think he is more used to dictating the tide rather then following or completely understanding it.
He is more of an artist in the classic sense, making his art not for anyone in particular but as an expression of himself. This wasn't that big of an issue until he got older, with more power and literally no one in the company could tell him no. Not saying he still isn't one of the best at what he does but from a business standpoint he is less concerned about playing for the crowd and more about what he would want.
