In a roundtable session with several media outlets, Nintendo's developer extraordinaire Shigeru Miyamoto laid out the details on his latest work, Wii Music. GamePro had some highlights from this session, and it seems that Shiggy dropped some highlight-worthy bullet points.
Miyamoto likes other games like Guitar Hero and Beatmania, but he thinks of his game as less of a "cover band" experience and more like a performing one. He says "My goal wouldn't be to try and lull people to join the best cover band, but rather, to let them move beyond that rather basic level of music training."
The Wii Music track list came up in the discussion. Miyamoto defended it by saying that they were aiming for a casual appeal, and that many of today's top songs didn't have chord progressions conducive to Wii Music.
Finally, Miyamoto said "I don't think it's right to call Wii Music a game; instead I think a better way to describe Wii Music is that it's a new kind of musical instrument."
Really? If so, it's the least musical musical instrument I've ever played!
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10:05 AM on 10.24.2008 | 
@Matlox
i agree
God dammit Miyamoto
Now if her were talking about Rhythm Tengoku Gold, which has tons of original music, and the ability to play entire songs how ever you want (if you don't mind being told you failed afterwards), but also the capacity to try and excel and "win", then I'd be agreeing with him.
Wii Music = RRoD/Blu Ray inclusion fail combined.
No Miyamoto. It's more like a shittier midi cover band experience that can completely fuck up the rhythm of a song on top of it.
Instrument my ass.
Wii Music looks silly.
there's the jazz remix and a reggae one with steel drums. this game really is a masterpiece and i don't think miyamoto is missing a beat. oh terrible puns....
I'd rather play Rock Band or Guitar Hero to be honest.
Especially from a community that defended Nintendo so much.
And yea Miyamoto, its a crappy waggle-fest that sadly will sell millions.
looooool
Is it just me or has Miyamoto seemed a lot more ....self loving towards Wii Music than any other project of his? I've never heard him talk up his own game so much, let alone with an almost Peter Molyneux-esque level of overconfidence.
I hate rock band
and now I hate wii music
I noticed that miyamoto is really hyped about wii music. maybe he is trying to fool himself into thinking he created something worthwhile.
mario galaxy was damn impressive. yet he wasnt riding his own cock about that game.
make another donkey kong game miyamoto, a remake/rebuild of the gameboy game would be awesome.
The problem is that the company knows where the market is heading, and Miyomoto has to follow suit. They all know where the money is. So, until the market changes, this is the stuff people will be getting for years to come.
Where are the Miyomotos in Microsoft and Sony? I love my PS3 and 360, but really, I'm sick to death of war games as retail releases. I'd never use my 360 at all if it wasn't for Live Arcade, which is sad seeing how I keep criticizing cheap games that look like they were whipped together in a few weeks. I think I had more fun with my PS2 than all these next-gen systems combined.