2011 VGAs – all winners
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Studio of the Year
Bethesda Game Studios
Naughty Dog
Rocksteady Studios
Valve
Best Xbox 360 Game
Batman: Arkham City
Forza Motorsport 4
Gears of War 3
Portal 2
Best PS3 Game
inFamous 2
Killzone 3
LittleBigPlanet 2
Uncharted 3
Best Wii Game
Epic Mickey
Kirby’s Return to Dream Land
Lost in Shadow
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Video: The Legend of Zelda Hall of Fame ceremony at the VGAs
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If you missed this, you’ll definitely want to check out the video above. Zelda gets a standing ovation, and Miyamoto accepts the award for Nintendo.
By the way, I’m aware that the sound and video synchronization is a bit off. I’m working on fixing that!
There could be more Ni no Kuni in the future
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Ni no Kuni hasn’t been Level-5’s most successful IP, but the studio has tentative plans to build it into a series. CEO Akihiro Hino said that they would consider including additional package game releases and will expand the current world rather than taking the IP in a completely different direction.
It could be awhile before we see anything new, however. Hino stated that there are many things that Level-5 must finalize before progress can be made.
Finally, Hino discussed why there were two different versions of Ni no Kuni. The “first” title, made for DS, was created so as many people as possible could experience the Ni no Kuni universe. For the PlayStation 3 version, Level-5 hoped to bring movie-like quality to the game in terms of the animation and soundtrack.
Post of the Day: What if Miyamoto “retired”? What would YOU want to happen?
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You can read today’s post of the day here.
Okay, so by now we’ve all heard the news that Miyamoto is not retiring, changing roles, or pretty much anything that the Wired interview said he was doing. I don’t know what got lost in translation there, but frankly it doesn’t really matter at this point! He’s here to stay… at least for a few years. But, I have a question for all of you: Let’s say Miyamoto did retire/step down/whatever. What would you look for in that situation? Let me go over a few possibilities…
In the case that he steps down, maybe he’d stop work on games like Mario and Zelda in lieu of Pikmin, and other smaller Nintendo franchises. If he did this, I’d really like to see him finish Pikmin 3 firstly, and then go in and really work hard on a new Star Fox game. I mean, seriously, when are we finally going to see another great entry into that fantastic (err… sort of fantastic) franchise? I grew up with it, and by golly, I want to keep growing up with it!
But let’s say he stops working on established franchises altogether, and instead goes for making new IPs with a smaller team. I don’t know about you guys, but what I’d want to see is him delving into some really deep and trippy emotional stuff, like he dabbled in with The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask. That game was so dense and layered and fantastic that I got lost in it within half a second, but it took me years- quite literally- to realize the full depth to which that game went in dealing with the emotional and psychological properties of mortality. It was a great game in its own right, but realizing those subtleties makes Miyamoto’s projects that much better.
Lastly, what if he left Nintendo altogether and just stopped making games? This one is the hardest to predict, but I’d really like to hear your guys’ thoughts on this! You can probably come up with more interesting scenarios than I can anyway…
New rewards coming to Club Nintendo “soon”
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Yesterday, perhaps inadvertently, Club Nintendo members were able to get a quick look at some new rewards that are on the way. When will they become available? Soon, according to the site.
The following notice was added in today:
“New rewards and games available for Coins coming soon. Please stay tuned!”
The new rewards include downloadable games, a Zelda poster set, and notebooks.
Thanks to Jonathan C for the tip!
Miyamoto not retiring, preparing Nintendo for the future
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Shigeru Miyamoto has elaborated on his plans for the future, and clarified comments over retirement in a new interview with MSNBC.
Miyamoto told the site that he has “no intention to retire.” However, he understands that Nintendo must be prepared for the day that it happens, as everyone must retire eventually. This is something that Miyamoto has been stressing to the staff at Nintendo for many years now.
He said:
“There is no plan to retire. I have no intention to retire. (Jokingly) And probably they won’t allow me to retire. What I really meant by this was that people have to retire someday, sometime, and I am not the exception at all. The company really has to get prepared for that kind of thing.
“It’s not just quite recently, actually, but for many years now I’ve been repeatedly telling this to the team at Nintendo so they can be more responsible. So they can take on more important assignments and take the initiative to make quality games to finalize and commercialize for the company.
“In that process, I say ‘You’ve got to be prepared for the time I’m going to retire. In other words, I was spurring the younger developers to take on more important assignments.
“As a matter of fact, when we look at the most recent work from the teams I’m supervising, games like Super Mario 3D Land and Skyward Sword, they were shaping up quite nicely, so I think they are coming very very close to what I want these teams to be. This is the thing I was trying to tell.”
So, there you have it. Miyamoto isn’t retiring, not does it seem as though he’ll be stepping down from his current position anytime soon. When it does happen though, he feels that the Nintendo will continue to make the same types of games that the company has been known for:
“That is a feeling (I have) that they are growing up so that sometime, someday, if I needed to retire, they are going to carry on the ultimate responsibilities — they are going to make Nintendo-quality games. After all, a game is not made by one single person. It is the result that reflects on the entire ability of the team. Now I think I have some meaning being involved in any development team. The question is, if I’m out of there, what sort of ability will the entire team be able to exercise? My impression is they are growing up today so that they are going to be able to make something really great without me.”
Club Nintendo returns, lacks new rewards and design
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Club Nintendo is back up and running after a full day of maintenance. Having said that, the new rewards and design that were spotted during brief periods of “uptime” haven’t appeared as of yet.
I wouldn’t worry about this too much, though. It’s possible that Nintendo is still working on the technical setup or something along those lines.
Thanks to Jake for the tip!
Wired sticking to original report on Miyamoto’s status, Nintendo provided translation
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Around 24 hours ago, gaming enthusiasts believed that Shigeru Miyamoto would be trading in his current position at Nintendo for a much smaller role. Then we heard earlier this morning that his status wouldn’t be changing at all.
Wired was the publication that initially reported on the story. In spite of official statements from Nintendo claiming that there was a misunderstanding, editor Chris Kohler is sticking my the site’s original article.
He explained:
“Miyamoto’s comments as presented in our story are exactly what Miyamoto said, and presented with the full context of his remarks. We are absolutely standing by those statements as reported.”
A translation error was thought to be a possible explanation for the discrepancy between Wired’s report and comments from Nintendo. However, it seems that we can now rule that out. Yasuhiro Minagawa, a longtime translator for Miyamoto, provided the English translation for Miyamoto’s recent comments.
“It was Mr. [Yasuhiro] Minagawa; who has been Miyamoto’s translator for a very, very, very long time. I did an interview with Miyamoto in 2002, and Mr. Minagawa was Miyamoto’s translator then. It is Nintendo’s translator, not ours.”
Nintendo Week (12/8/11)
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On this week’s episode: Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive! and Fortune Street.
