Miyamoto on lessons learned working on HD games, feels responsibility for slow Wii U start, music playing
CVG has gone live with a short interview with Shigeru Miyamoto. You can find comments below regarding work on HD games, Wii U’s slow start, and playing music.
Miyamoto on lessons he has learned working on his own debut HD projects such as Pikmin 3…
What I learned the most is that the HD visuals are really particularly suited to Pikmin 3, and I say that because I think the lesson I learned is that the high resolution graphics are really good at portraying lots of little details within the environment.
But also of course in completing those HD visuals it’s taken a lot of time, and what’s particularly important is that in that process of developing the games you really need to stay true to that core game design. Because if you don’t then it’s very easy for a game’s production values to overshadow what’s going on with the gameplay itself.
Of course at the same time if you don’t have that core game design locked down then the development keeps extending and extending as you try to polish the quality of the graphics along the way.
Miyamoto on whether or not he personally feels the responsibility to steer the ship around with Wii U’s slow start through software…
I definitely think I have responsibility. Certainly with the Wii U hardware itself, first and foremost we designed this to be a system that is incredibly convenient to use in the living room, but the challenge with the Wii U system is you don’t really understand the benefits of it until you have experienced it in your living room.
What we’re finding is that people that own the system and that have played the system enjoy it – their satisfaction level is quite high, but the challenge is we haven’t had enough Nintendo software to provide a broader audience incentive to go out and purchase the system.
It’s particularly clear at E3 this year that with Pikmin 3 and the other games that we’re showing, I finally feel like I’m fulfilling my responsibility by providing people with the type of software that we think is going to make them want to purchase Wii U. And then once they bring it in to the home and they start to understand what kind of convenience it brings through the Gamepad and TV, I think we’re going to start to see people really enjoy it.
Miyamoto on how his banjo playing is going these days…
Banjo I rarely play at the moment. I play guitar more and I play guitar regularly.
