Nitendo's posted an interview which sees the likes of Satoru Iwata, Shigeru Miyamoto, Zenichi Yahashita, Takayuki Shimamura, Takuhiro Dohta and Kenta Sato (from EAD) discussing Wii Sports Resort.
Here are the best bits:
Shimamura on the Wii Sports Sequel: Actually, the idea of developing a sequel to Wii Sports was one that we'd considered a long time before this [MotionPlus].
We'd even had discussions about which new sports to include, but we weren't able to see how we could come up with new ways to enjoy the game, so it was temporarily put on hold. When Wii MotionPlus came along, we thought that we might now be able to revive the plan."
Wii Sports Resort
Official trailer
2:42E3 2009 trailer
Wii Sports Resort
Official trailer
2:42E3 2009 trailer
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Miyamoto on Wuhu Island: "I had been thinking about the "Island Concept" in one form or another for more than ten years. I've always thought, seeing as we are a games company, that in addition to characters resembling people, why couldn't we also turn the actual stages of games into characters?
It's called Wuhu Island, but the concept is more or less the same. We really polished up the island, turned it into a resort and actually made the location into a kind of character. This will then lead to a range of island series... You could have adventure games, role-playing games, city-building simulation games... It will be fun to see all the ideas that we can come up with, won't it?
Yamashita on the success of the first game: Before Wii Sports was released, we had absolutely no idea how well it would sell, in part because it was coming out at the same time as the Wii console.
I was confident that we had produced an enjoyable game, that players would prove receptive to, at least to some extent. But, as the reality turned out, to go so far beyond anything we had predicted, when it came time to work on the follow-up, I was naturally nervous.
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