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Read More »Miyamoto: ‘Nintendo’s fixed-cost mobile games haven’t been a success yet’
From Mario+Rabbids to Star Fox – Ubisoft and Nintendo partnership carries over to Starlink: Battle for Atlas
Optional toys and Star Fox’s Fox McCloud on Switch - could Starlink: Battle for Atlas revive the toys-to-life genre?
Read More »Miyamoto: PC games will take less than a year to port to Switch
"Third-party developers who are making software for PC can now easily adapt that software to work on our platform,"
Read More »Miyamoto talks down Mario on VR
Shigeru Miyamoto has said we shouldn’t expect to see a VR Mario title any time soon. In an interview withUSA Today, the long-serving Nintendo designer said the technology ‘wasn’t quite the right fit’ for the platform holder’s flagship franchise, primarily because it isolates players. "I would agree that adapting Mario …
Read More »‘Not the right fit for Mario’: Miyamoto continues Nintendo’s anti-VR stance
Legendary developer believes the technology isn't social enough to warrant an outing for the plumber
Read More »Miyamoto thinks Starfox is Wii U’s most underrated game
This year’s Star Fox Zero has been named as the Wii U’s most underrated game by legendary Nintendo developer Shigeru Miyamoto. I think personally Star Fox is a really fun game if you sit down and play it,” Miyamoto told Game Informer. I think, for example, an elementary school kid …
Read More »Star Fox Zero adds invincible mode for youngsters
Nintendo’s upcoming Wii U title Star Fox Zero will work hard to ensure that it is accessible to as wide an audience as possible. Development boss Shigeru Miyamoto told Time that the game will allow players to be invincible, the idea being that this will increase its appeal to kids. …
Read More »Project Guard gets a Star Fox makeover and is out next month
Shigeru Miyamoto’s Wii U game Project Guard will launch next month, only with a new name. Star Fox Guard is a co-operative security guard sim. One player controls a gun using the Wii U gamepad, while everyone else looks at the TV screen that shows multiple security camera screens. The …
Read More »Miyamoto wanted the killing removed from N64’s Goldeneye
If Nintendo had had its way, James Bond would have killed none of his enemies in the hugely successful Goldeneye on N64. Bond is a violent franchise and making that fit with Nintendo, which is very much family-friendly, was a challenge,” the game’s co-designer Martin Hollis explained to an audience …
Read More »Pikmin 4 ‘very close to completion’
Nintendo’s development boss Shigeru Miyamoto has said that not only is Pikmin 4 in development, but it’s actually very nearly finished. "It’s actually very close to completion," Miyamoto told Eurogamer in an interview recorded in July. "Pikmin teams are always working on the next one." Nintendo has since added: "We …
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