Game industry icon Shigeru Miyamoto has called out third parties that don't put enough effort into their Nintendo projects. He's not pleased that many have assigned third-string or fourth-string teams to DS or Wii titles. Miyamoto also shared his reaction to Sony's Home and LittleBigPlanet.
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Miyamoto seems to be doing a lot of talking lately... and not a lot of anything else really. I guess that's a good thing since his vision of the future of video games just completely sucks.
I think its time for him to STFU. His crap isn't relevant anymore.
Soon as they make a first string platform, they'll use first string teams.
End of story.
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Originally Posted by Nash
Ironic that this is coming from Shiggy's mouth himself, when so many people deny that it's true.
I've said it before. The sheer lack of major 3rd party franchises on the Wii shows that most publishers consider it a quick cash run and not a place for serious title development, unless they really want to innovate with the Wiimote (Godfather is a good example of this). All we're seeing from companies are ports with sensor controls tacked on, and that's not going to change as developers get to really know the 360 and PS3 hardware.
I know the Wiinees are going to come in spouting sales numbers and how the Wii is out of stock everywhere, but that has shit all to do with developer's tastes. I can't think of one major multi-platform franchise being brought to the Wii this year, but I can think of at least five that aren't.
So long as people are content to buy mini game collections and Nintendo games, you're not going to see much from 3rd parties. Even EA is guilty, and it's the biggest platform whore there is. I noticed that while a next gen Medal of Honor game is coming for the 360 and PS3, the Wii is getting a port of the PS2 game.
Third parties are just putting as much effort into Wii games as Nintendo did with Wii Sports, that's all.
They are putting in far, far more effort than that.Quote:
Originally Posted by dog$
This story makes me LOL. Miyamoto basically dissed everyone that's actually making games for them and the ones he's not won't be making games for them anyway. Hard for me to believe he said this.
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Originally Posted by Chux
Nintendo has fourth string hardware, so they get fourth string teams.