When Nintendo throws a shareholder meeting and its band of ever-vigilant public relations folk allow Shigeru Miyamoto to say what's on his mind, you know we're in for a treat.
First, a long-sought-after response to the question "what exactly is the deal with Pikmin 3?" The famed designer had this to say: "Amongst the present promises, I have to finish Pikmin quickly, so production is progressing extremely well."
As an adamant fan of Pikmin, that's good to hear. I'd much rather be shown something, anything, but what can you do? Moving on to the other major topic of interest at hand, Miyamoto danced around the idea of coming up with a new character for Nintendo.
"It's been nearly 10 years since I made the Pikmin character, so I feel this is the year where I must at long last make a new character. This is as far as I'll answer today." He also mentioned how he has picked up swimming -- take that for what you will.
Miyamoto on Swimming, 3DS, Cats and New Characters [andriasang]
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1:40 PM on 07.01.2010
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Pikmin's pretty dull, Miyamoto needs to get his ass on a FEW new original IPs - specially how Zelda looks like crap and all.
I'm also hoping the 3DS will innovate a bit more than "waggle" did.
Oh fuck you. :)
I'd definitely prefer a brand new IP over Pikmin 3.
It may not be your bag, fella, but please explain to me how Pikmin is dull?
This is an interesting one. I've heard lots of people say this, but I don't think it's quite true. Mario galaxy doesn't play like 64 (or Sunshine) on a mechanic level, even though the feelings the experience gives are the same and most of the controls are similar. Something similar is true of Zelda: Spirit Tracks vs. Twilight Princess vs. Wind Waker. Metroid Prime doesn't play like Super Metroid, and the list goes on.
So is it the character and brand people are talking about here? Is it the story not changing much (which is mostly window dressing in almost all of N's franchises anyway)? Is it the feelings they get from the games? I'd actually be interested in knowing this.
Miyamoto always has fun new ideas with not only each new character he creates, but each new iteration of the franchises he creates or works on.
Most people are just content with developers that slap a new character on an existing genre that does nothing new. Yet they get all angsty about Nintendo not making a new IP. Those people just like buying stuff, they don't give a shit about new ideas.
WTF IS GOING ON!?!?
Ok.They reused the same characters for a zillion times,but they always changed up the gameplay.
Also *cough* Gears of Modern Bad Company 4 original.I heard no one complaining.
FEEL THE IRONY, FEEL IT!
Isn't Chibi Robo their newest character? I thought that landed after Pikmin.
In any case, I'll make no predictions, but non-human is a plus and I demand Awesome.
@GunRun
Giant Cat sounds amazing.
@Electrium
but... but Echo! Sure, he's Sega property, but we've already got a dolphin. Not saying Nintendo couldn't do it better.
I thought Nintendo wanted Miyamoto to stop talking about his hobbies publicly, haha.
They could certainly make another that plays entirely differently though.