New Team Ninja head of development Yosuke Hayashi spoke with Gamasutra at TGS and gave an insight into what it’s like to develop for the 3DS.
“The 3DS in and of itself is easy to develop for. It’s a handheld platform, which makes it relatively easy from a development standpoint. But being 3D, other than just the specs, we have to figure out how to use it well, how to use that effect. That’s something we’re having fun with, trying to figure that out. Up until now, 3D [in games] has not been an everyday experience. We think that with the 3DS, this will be the first time that anybody can get a 3D experience just about anywhere. It’ll be just a part of everyday life. So we’re trying to put out a 3D fighting game and see how that goes, and learn from that experience. We’ll go from there to see where 3D should go, and how we can use 3D to make a deeper experience in the future.”
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Eurogamer managed to grab some time with Nintendo’s Yoshio Sakamoto and Yosuke Hayashi at E3 where they talked Metroid and 3DS. Here’s some excerpts…
Eurogamer: What are those shared goals with Metroid: Other M?
Yoshio Sakamoto: We really wanted to bring new gameplay experiences to this project. We have a lot of communication from Metroid fans, and we know what they want to see. It’s a challenge to pack everything in that they want.
In terms of our ambitions, the best way to put it is to say that we really want to overcome the expectations of game design. While we’re trying to do these things that people have been clamouring for, we also don’t want to do things the way people expect, because then there’s no surprise.
On top of that, we have to make it accessible for anybody to play. As to how this would be manifested in an action game, I should leave that to Mr Hayashi to respond. Certainly, in terms of working on this project, we don’t think of ourselves as Nintendo and Team Ninja anymore. We’re just one team working on this game.
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