Joystiq was able to speak with Bungie’s Frank O’Connor about several topics but closed by asking about Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto claiming that he could make ‘Halo’ if he wanted, but that he chooses not to.
One final question: last week, Shigeru Miyamoto said in an interview with Geoff Keighley in Entertainment Weekly that he could make Halo.
Yeah, well. I just want to go on the record and say that Bungie is hard at work on a side-scrolling platform game featuring some plumbers — I’m not going to say what their ethnicity is, it’s none of anyone’s business — but we took that as a gauntlet, a sort of glove slap, and we’re going to respond in 2D scrolling style. That’s all I’m saying.
Sheesh. Talk about bitter. I get how they took Shiggy’s comments to offense, but jeez, I’m pretty sure he wasn’t slamming Halo specifically. I’m pretty sure Miyamoto could have said Gears of War or Perfect Dark or any other kind of FPS and he would’ve gotten the same point across. He doesn’t make games he knows audiences keep demanding; he finds new kinds of fun that he thinks audiences will take a liking to. He’s not trying to call out Bungie for making Halo or anything of the sort.
