[Nieuws] Geschreven door Theun op 2007-07-14 02:05:24
George Harrison interview
Er is een interview gehouden met Nintendo's marketing director George Harrison. De site Next-Gen heeft een interview gehouden met Nintendo's marketing director George Harrison. In het interview wordt onder andere aan de beste man gevraagd of Nintendo het online gebeuren echt serieus aanpakt, hoe de relatie is met third party ontwikkelaars enzovoort. Hieronder een klein stukje uit het interview. Vooral het laatste gedeelte is interessant; Rockstar lijkt voorlopig nog niet van plan te zijn de Grand Theft Auto serie op een Nintendo console te laten verschijnen, omdat men bij Rockstar niet gelooft dat de mensen met een Wii er het juiste publiek voor zijn. Voor het volledige interview moet je op de link klikken onderaan. [QUOTE]The Wii does appeal to hardcore and casual with the types of games that come out, but I think a lot of the hardcore appeal relies on the characters that people grew up with—the franchises that the hardcore gamers are still going to love like Mario and things that come out like that. The appeal of Smash Brothers is an example of that. Yeah. Are there games coming out, though, that are new IPs that will be appealing to the more core gamer? Well some of that may come actually from the publishers as well. One of the things that we’ve put a lot of emphasis on with Wii, that was a problem of course with GameCube, is we didn’t have the publisher support, so quickly after the launch of GameCube, we didn’t have enough publisher support. In the case of Wii we spent a lot more time cultivating [publishers], showing them not only that it was easy to make games for the Wii, but they could actually do some unique things and sell their games to different people by supporting the Wii. So at this point we feel great about it. When we see companies like EA and Activision and Ubisoft doing tons of projects for us, that’s what’s really going to set us up. There will always be some kinds of games that Nintendo ourselves aren’t good at making. We are very good at making the character-based games, the Mario and Donkey Kong, Zelda and those types of things, but there are other types that we don’t make. We need Capcom to do Resident Evil and we need EA to do Madden and sports and those types of things. And you need Take-Two to do games like Manhunt 2, too. Well, yeah. Take-Two does a certain type of game. I’m sure in the last generation Take-Two didn’t even think to bring Grand Theft Auto to a Nintendo system, it didn’t make sense. They didn’t believe that we had an audience for it. What we had to do is go out and convince pretty much every publisher that there’s a unique opportunity on Wii.[/QUOTE]