This information comes from the latest Iwata Asks…
Miyamoto: Yeah. When we tested the game on the Nintendo GameCube system, there was a dog whose hair had grown in…
Iwata: That’s right, you first experimented with it on the Nintendo GameCube console when you first wanted to make a game like Nintendogs. Why didn’t that go anywhere and how was it decided that it would be released for the Nintendo DS system?
Miyamoto: The project started when I thought it would be fun to raise a pet in the television, but I thought the Nintendo DS hardware was much better suited to it.
Iwata: With the Nintendo DS systems, you can use the stylus to pet it.
Miyamoto: But with Nintendo DS, we couldn’t show the character of the coat. We now had more hardware power, so we could go back to that super-soft and fluffy feeling. (laughs) And it’s in 3D, so you can pet around their back.
This information comes from the latest edition of Iwata Asks focusing on nintendogs + cats…
Konno: There were even ideas for animals like horses and dolphins. Some people said that horses would definitely sell well in Europe.
Iwata: So you were thinking about it, experimenting, and discussing it. Fate just wasn’t with those experiments and weren’t able to find that key element to validate them as a product.
Konno: Yes. We actually considered it for the Wii system. But it doesn’t have a microphone, so you couldn’t talk to your dog.
Iwata: Oh! So if the Wii Remote controller had a mic, there might have been a Wii version of Nintendogs?
Konno: Yeah. We might have moved forward with it.
Miyamoto: But there’s a distance between the Wii Remote and the television, so it might not have felt like you were petting your dog.
Konno: Right. We decided to consider any good ideas that might come up, but nothing ever developed.
Miyamoto: And to be honest, I didn’t feel like making a follow-up Nintendogs at the time.
Thanks to Thomas N for the tip!
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