Nintendo missed out on Media Molecule

Non-hippie, Oblivion-rocketeers Media Molecule made quite the impression on Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime. He said that – of Sony‘s Phil Harrison‘s title line-up in his keynote at the 2007 Game Developers Conference, LittleBigPlanet stole the show. What about the PlayStation Home? Well, that’s something at the bottom of his list.

 

Nintendo America’s president, who revealed the Nintendo Wii’s successful drive for third-party game developer support at N’Gai Croal’s exclusive interview, was quoted to have said at a latter part of the interview:

You know, I think the best thing shown by Phil Harrison was LittleBigPlanet. The group doing that game is fantastic, and I say that having seen the rag doll little product that they had created. … That product, I think, is quite intriguing. I’m not sure how well it will do on the Sony platform, quite frankly, but I think that the product they showed was outstanding.

So it might not be surprising that the Japanese gaming giant, who always had the eye for creativity rather than going for the mainstream, figured that Sony should be given due credit for beating them to the punch. He said, and we quote, “Frankly, Nintendo wanted to do some business with those folks, but to give Phil some credit, he got there first.“

So Rag Doll Kung Fu Mark Healey, Alex Evans and their army of 10 developers could have been working for gaming legend Shigeru Miyamoto, instead of having to adapt their originally 2D, non-“age of aquarius” game for Sony’s “We love it, but can we have more of the age of aquarius stuff?” antics. But they’ve taken the road most travelled, and that’s probably what matters to most.

Via Newsweek: N’Gai Croal’s Talk

Non-hippie, Oblivion-rocketeers Media Molecule made quite the impression on Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime. He said that – of Sony‘s Phil Harrison‘s title line-up in his keynote at the 2007 Game Developers Conference, LittleBigPlanet stole the show. What about the PlayStation Home? Well, that’s something at the bottom of his list.

 

Nintendo America’s president, who revealed the Nintendo Wii’s successful drive for third-party game developer support at N’Gai Croal’s exclusive interview, was quoted to have said at a latter part of the interview:

You know, I think the best thing shown by Phil Harrison was LittleBigPlanet. The group doing that game is fantastic, and I say that having seen the rag doll little product that they had created. … That product, I think, is quite intriguing. I’m not sure how well it will do on the Sony platform, quite frankly, but I think that the product they showed was outstanding.

So it might not be surprising that the Japanese gaming giant, who always had the eye for creativity rather than going for the mainstream, figured that Sony should be given due credit for beating them to the punch. He said, and we quote, “Frankly, Nintendo wanted to do some business with those folks, but to give Phil some credit, he got there first.“

So Rag Doll Kung Fu Mark Healey, Alex Evans and their army of 10 developers could have been working for gaming legend Shigeru Miyamoto, instead of having to adapt their originally 2D, non-“age of aquarius” game for Sony’s “We love it, but can we have more of the age of aquarius stuff?” antics. But they’ve taken the road most travelled, and that’s probably what matters to most.

Via Newsweek: N’Gai Croal’s Talk