Nintendo's Miyamoto has been answering questions about his company. Sure, not the sort of questions that are: Dude, why have you stuffed up so badly with Wii U? Other questions. Let's have a look see... These Q and As came from the recent Iwata Asks in which the great man also answers. His his ask-answering about the future of
Mario Galaxy in the light of
Super Mario 3D World.
Speaking in the
Iwata Asks session with Yoshiaki Koizumi, Mr Miyamoto said:
Koizumi That's right. We've made use of the technology cultivated through Super Mario Galaxy, and characters like Rosalina and Captain Toad, who came about through those games play a new role. Super Mario 3D World is the form we chose to have a greater number of people enjoy that, so I think this is the present culmination of 3D Super Mario games.
Iwata All right.
Miyamoto Just so there is no misunderstanding, I should point out that this doesn't mean we'll never make another Super Mario Galaxy game.
Koizumi That's right. When we first started making Super Mario 3D World, Miyamoto-san asked me if this was going to be more like Super Mario Galaxy or more like Super Mario 3D Land. When we made Super Mario 3D Land, we had our eyes on the form of this game, so we made it this way without any hesitation.
Miyamoto The same team can't make both at the same time. And we can't bring in a second party and slap the name Super Mario Galaxy on it. I suppose we could idealistically make both in Tokyo, but we want to do something new too, so there was that dilemma.
Oh... as a treat, here's the Iwata Says on Pokemon X and Y too.
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