Miyamoto: "Ugh, this shit looks like a Sega game. Change it."

[Crushed]

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-07/st_15miyamoto

Wired: Nintendo is huge now. How do you maintain quality control?

Miyamoto: I'm always instructing my game designers on the history of the characters and worlds we've created. Often we're in development and I'll say, "Oh, this looks like a Sega game. We need to make it look more like Mario."

Miyamoto

[Van Cruncheon]

he doesn't call wii fit a game, either

take note, gaf

[Howard Alan Treesong]

sick burn

[FlameOfCallandor]

Did he really say that? 

Trolling at its best.

[Great Rumbler]

"Halo? I could make that if I wanted to."

"Guns on cars? LOL."

"Looks like a Sega game. Change it!"

*overturns coffee table*

[AdmiralViscen]

poor Sega fans,  Getting trolled by an irrelevant video game designer. 

How generous of you.

[Crushed]

Wii Fit
Nintendogs
Mario

all irrelevant in today's videogame industry

[MyNameIsMethodis]

Miyamoto is the biggest douchebag ever. He doesn't talk to fans or anything.

[recursivelyenumerable]

http://us.wii.com/iwata_asks_vol1_index.jsp <-- Yoshiaki Koizumi, SMG
http://us.wii.com/wii-fit/iwata_asks/vol3_page1.jsp <-- Hiroshi Matsunaga, Wii Fit

[Van Cruncheon]

Wii Fit -- not a videogame
Nintendo Dogs -- not a videogame
Mario -- one decent vidogame in the last 10 years

all irrelevant in today's videogame industry

[recursivelyenumerable]

Sugiyama
When we first went to talk with him, the Wii Balance Board was still a square because we were still going with the bathroom scales motif, and it was still too narrow to do the exercises in the Yoga and Muscle Workouts sections of the game. So we started talking about maybe designing these sections to function like your typical fitness DVD, in that you work out on the floor while watching a trainer doing the same on the screen. We compiled footage of a number of trainers doing different exercises and showed the movie back at the company to see what everyone thought. While we did so, Miyamoto-san suddenly shouted "That’s it!"

Iwata
Come again?

Sugiyama
We just looked back at him puzzled, because we had no idea what he was going on about. And then he got angry and told us off for that.

Matsunaga
I was there at the time, and I didn’t know what he was talking about either. I was just confused as to what he was getting angry at us for! (laughs)

[recursivelyenumerable]

in fairness, the developers seem to indicate a crucial role for Miyamoto in those interviews, although who knows what they'd say if they were talking to a neutral party in confidence and not the president of the company 

[pilonv1]

At least Sega still make games.

[Crushed]

At least Sega still make games.

Like Charlotte's Web, and cat sims.

[Narag]

At least Sega still make games.

They're on notice until SoA2. At that point, I'll bother picking SoA back up again.

[Grecco]

So i guess Mario had guns and drove a bike before it got turned into an excelent Mario Galaxy


Would have loved to see Mario "Shadow the hedgehoged" though.

[pilonv1]

At least Sega still make games.

Like Charlotte's Web, and cat sims.

They make a better mascot game (Sega Tennis)

[Human Snorenado]

At least Sega still make games.

They're on notice until SoA2. At that point, I'll bother picking SoA back up again.

Pfft, I've had them on notice since they bastardized the PS franchise with those shitty Diablo clones.

[cool breeze]

Hating on PSO is insanity.  Check yo' self.

[Joe Molotov]

At least Sega still make games.

Let's celebrate their most successful game in years:

[Crushed]

From Japan news thread:

News

New Haruhi game for DS from SEGA - releasing this winter

Blazer Drive from SEGA for the DS - also releasing this winter

Sega.

[Narag]

Hating on PSO is insanity.  Check yo' self.

He has a point though. There hasn't been a traditional PS in years.  :'(

[pilonv1]

At least Sega still make games.

Let's celebrate their most successful game in years:

(Image removed from quote.)

This is going to be big too, out here next friday!

[Himu]

at least sega publishes GOOD GAMES

Crush is better than anything Nintendo has done since Yoshi's Island except maybe Rhythm Tengoku

[Himu]

nintendo has nothing on yakuza or virtua fighter

sega

even sega in its current form is better than nintenshit

[Hollywood]

Sega sucks, only fegs like Sega. I saw a thread on Cheap Ass Gamer where Meijer's was selling Nights Wii for $2.99. People were like "what a deal!" I was thinking, "A SEGA game for $2.99? Highway robbery." I'll wait until the pricedrop to 50 cents and get it and a pack of gum.

[Great Rumbler]

"Halo? I could make that if I wanted to."

"Guns on cars? LOL."

"Looks like a Sega game. Change it!"

*overturns coffee table*

"Is this a PC game?"

Miyamoto-san

Oh man, I can't believe I forgot that one!

[Oblivion]

If Miyamoto can continue making a game like Galaxy, then he can do however many Wii Fit like projects he wants.

Shigeru Miyamoto

edit: Also, sick burn. lol

[WrikaWrek]

Ice cold

[Oblivion]

poor Sega fans,  Getting trolled by an irrelevant video game designer. 

How generous of you.

Dude, you seem much angrier nowadays. What's up with that, homey?

[Oblivion]

No, I was referring to AV, yo! As I quoted.

[Himu]

AV is just going through some troubled times. She missed her period this month and we think I made her pregnant.

[Jabberwocky]

Sorry, I've never heard of this SEGA. Is it a PC game?

Damnit someone beat me to that joke.

[AdmiralViscen]

poor Sega fans,  Getting trolled by an irrelevant video game designer. 

How generous of you.

Dude, you seem much angrier nowadays. What's up with that, homey?

Huh? I'm not mad at Miyamoto

[Oblivion]

poor Sega fans,  Getting trolled by an irrelevant video game designer. 

How generous of you.

Dude, you seem much angrier nowadays. What's up with that, homey?

Huh? I'm not mad at Miyamoto

I didn't mean at Miyamoto. You just seem just a tad grumpier and jaded nowadays in general. At least it seems that way.

[MCD]

poor Sega fans,  Getting trolled by an irrelevant video game designer. 

How generous of you.

Dude, you seem much angrier nowadays. What's up with that, homey?

Huh? I'm not mad at Miyamoto

I didn't mean at Miyamoto. You just seem just a tad grumpier and jaded nowadays in general. At least it seems that way.

what are you? his wife?

[AdmiralViscen]

poor Sega fans,  Getting trolled by an irrelevant video game designer. 

How generous of you.

Dude, you seem much angrier nowadays. What's up with that, homey?

Huh? I'm not mad at Miyamoto

I didn't mean at Miyamoto. You just seem just a tad grumpier and jaded nowadays in general. At least it seems that way.

That may be so but I was going for straight humor in this thread.

Last few weeks have sucked, the next few look rosy though.

[The Sceneman]

Miyamoto is the biggest douchebag ever. He doesn't talk to fans or anything.

have you seen his fans? I wouldnt talk to them if I didnt have to

[Shuri]

It must suck to work in the shadow of Shiggy. Japanese devs just dont give a fuck about their employees. We all remember in the '80 how jp devs would FORCE people to use nicknames for the credits sequence of games because 'they were afraid of having them recruited by other companies' or some bullshit.

I wish Shiggy would challenge himself and come up with his own new concept that is far away from the usual mario cutesy stuff.

[MCD]

oh? so that's why mega man x credits is just a bunch of nicknames?

[Narag]

I'd always wondered that.

[ferrarimanf355]

As I mentioned on Joystiq, I look at Mario Kart and think that it should be more like Daytona USA... 

[Oblivion]

It must suck to work in the shadow of Shiggy. Japanese devs just dont give a fuck about their employees. We all remember in the '80 how jp devs would FORCE people to use nicknames for the credits sequence of games because 'they were afraid of having them recruited by other companies' or some bullshit.

I wish Shiggy would challenge himself and come up with his own new concept that is far away from the usual mario cutesy stuff.

Does Pikmin and Wii Fit count?

[laesperanzapaz]

It must suck to work in the shadow of Shiggy. Japanese devs just dont give a fuck about their employees. We all remember in the '80 how jp devs would FORCE people to use nicknames for the credits sequence of games because 'they were afraid of having them recruited by other companies' or some bullshit.

I wish Shiggy would challenge himself and come up with his own new concept that is far away from the usual mario cutesy stuff.

Does Pikmin and Wii Fit count?

Does Too Human count as legitimizing Dyack's trailblazing?