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Forums - Nintendo - Iwata Asks: 3DS, Steel Diver, didn't think Zelda would be "mainstream"

RCTjunkie on 03 March 2011

Miyamoto:

I didn't think that genre would be seen as something so mainstream. I really didn't expect the response I got when I first made The Legend of Zelda. A world of swords and magic really wasn't considered mainstream at the time.

On Steel Diver:

Miyamoto:

The project was on hold, and about two years after the Nintendo DS system was released, one of the teams finally had time to work on it. That's when we resumed its development as a Nintendo DS title. But right as we were making it, the features of Nintendo 3DS system started to get fixed. So while we were developing we thought, "This would work so much better on the Nintendo 3DS system!" It's basically a side-scrolling submarine game where you would move through a three-dimensional body of water. We thought it would look so much prettier if there was depth to it and the wide screen.

 

 

Read the full interview here

 

 

 





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Galaki on 04 March 2011

So, Steel Diver will be the next Zelda, huh?

/adds Steel Diver to shopping list



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Mad55 on 04 March 2011

back then i wouldnt think of it being that succesful either.



Vectorferret on 04 March 2011

It may have seemed out of place at the time in Japan, but Legend, Willow and Labrynth were all around that time in the US which I would imagine helped push fantasy a lot.



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SnesTea on 04 March 2011

Miyamoto is an idiot confirmed.

 

So shooting torpedoes out of a submarine is more mainstream? Who the fuck wants to play that?



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megaman79 on 04 March 2011

The only part of Steel Diver I played today was the periscope one, for the 10 minutes i played (could'nt the find the last two subs damn it!!!). It was very cool, but i need to see more.



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DeadEye on 04 March 2011

Another classic Iwata Asks, I enjoy these little conversations. I also find it fun to think that everyone inside Nintendo is just walking around StreetPassing evryone. No one has charm like Nintendo.



patapon on 04 March 2011

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mushroomboy5 on 04 March 2011
Vectorferret said:

It may have seemed out of place at the time in Japan, but Legend, Willow and Labrynth were all around that time in the US which I would imagine helped push fantasy a lot.

They may have something of a cult following NOWADAYS  but at the time none of these films were huge boxoffice drawcards (in fact Legend and Labyrinth were out and out BOMBS, and WILLOW fared only slightly better in comparison!) so I doubt they'd be seen as a huge contributing factor towards making fantasy more mainstream or paving the way for Zelda's mainstream success...

Given the lack of success of these 3 films, it could be said that Miyamoto was right and fantasy was in fact VERY unpopular at that point in time.



Linkasf on 04 March 2011
Snesboy said:

Miyamoto is an idiot confirmed.

 

So shooting torpedoes out of a submarine is more mainstream? Who the fuck wants to play that?


I wonder if Miyamoto knows that girls like playing Zelda games. ;/