Kudo Tsunoda, General Manager of Microsoft Game Studios, two days ago:
"If you've got any hands-on time with Banjo, it's a really awesome product.
The platforming genre has been so successful on previous generations of consoles, and you don't really see too many platforming games anymore. I think it's the kind of thing that the genre didn't really advance, creatively. Now you see what Rare's doing with Banjo, and that is what next-gen platform gaming is all about."
" Again, Banjo's a great example. The platforming genre has been stale for a long time, and now someone's doing something really cool and creative with it."
To those that doubted the fact Banjo was a platformer.
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