“Thankfully I was able to get my hands on a Nintendo Wii, I got one the day before yesterday and I bought all of the Nintendo launch titles, and I’m playing them right now…I haven’t gotten my hands on Zelda yet, but I’ve been playing Wii Sports lately. The problem is if I start playing Zelda I’m not going to get any work done, so I have to be careful when I start that.”
“Obviously technology is always going to be evolving. Eventually we’re going to reach a point where you can’t tell the difference between systems, but we’re still pretty far from that point. Right now, advancing technology aims towards realism, they’re all aiming for the same thing, so I think it’s important that Nintendo brought out a system that’s totally operating on a different wavelength, since it gives you something outside of that.”
“However, the feeling I had when the Wii was first announced, the feeling I had at that time and the feeling I had when I actually played it were quite different, so that was interesting to me. I thought it would be good (at first), but I didn’t think it would be this good. I do think now that there are more types of games that are suitable for this machine than I actually thought. I thought there would be fewer games that would be suited to this machine, but now that I’ve actually played it I think there’s more possibilities than I originally thought.”
“(future Wii development) it would be once again handled by a young member of the team…when I’m playing with the Wii and I close my eyes, I envision myself holding a Japanese sword. So that’s the frame of mind I’m in right now, so I hope everyone looks forward to what we’re working on next.”
