The next issue (#25) of Official Nintendo Magazine has a four-page feature interview with Nintendo’s living legend, Shigeru Miyamoto. One of the questions brings up Insomniac’s claim that Super Mario Galaxy copied Ratchet and Clank‘s use of spherical worlds. Miyamoto didn’t just deny coping any ideas… he actually asked what the hell Ratchet and Clank was.
“In terms of the spherical worlds and anti-gravity, we had the original idea as soon as we finished the development of Mario 64 and had been experimenting with it for many years, even on the N64. ”It’s not an idea we got from anywhere else. I’m sorry but I have to admit that I’ve never seen the game in question. Is it a PC game?”
Insomniac just went from feeling “flattered” to feeling slapped in the face. Ouch. Maybe next time, boys.
