Why Golf Is In Wii Sports Resort

@J4cK 0f He4rt5: *me

@DrZaius: I had around 15 tabs open and I could not for the life of my work out which one was playing Huey Lewis. It was like a browser treasure hunt, thanks for the fun. :D

@Showmeyomoves!: Causal gamers anger me the most.

@phinehas: Actually, no, it was that bad... :P

@AChirino: This is the power he has:

@AChirino:
Hell of a lot more than Iwata, obviously. Still haven't seen those "Wow" graphics on the Wii. He better watch his tongue.

vaterunser

this is news because....

also, how about they "flub" and say that the next Smash Brothers game is coming out in 2010 and we will see another mario kart on the wii and DS before their generations run out....

Noodle-Works

I'm imagining Miyamoto as a sort of Ming the Merciless type space dictator right now...

To be fair, Golf in the first Wii Sports game played terribly thanks to spotty motion sensors.
I cannot wait to try it again with some 1:1 motion sensing.

Well why not? It does include Wii motion plus ...

@Airion: I was about to say that. Considering that (I believe, having watched Youtube videos) club and frisbee golf use the same holes, it can't have been that much work to just grab the swinging code from the original. Even frisbee golf would have been pretty easy to make-there have been frisbees in the game for as long as we've been seeing it...

bduddy

@Showmeyomoves!: but it's buddy is casual wear, and if you pick formal wear over casual wear you suck :|

@Josh Faul: Hah. I thought it was very funny.

@Mr. Mattican (Puts on Monicle): Thing is, that wish does not specify gender...

Remember, Remember, Tony Bravo.

@AChirino: On my part, I love the idea. As good as the Tiger Woods game is, I actually play the golf game in Sports Pak I more than I do the other game. I like the fact that the course is entirely dreamed up and that it's less complicated and flashy. In lieu of them making a game that entirely made up of Nintendo's "own" golf courses, I suppose I'll have to be happy with just one new course.

Also, it goes with the game's "resort area" theme. I mean, how many really good resorts out there do you know of that DON'T have some kind of golf course?

PsiWren

@AChirino: The power to change reality with a word.

@Josh Faul: Exactly.

@Dreamwriter: Yep, spot on. It's not a mistake - it's clear Miyamoto wanted it, and his 'announcement' was a way of making sure it was in there.

InTheGrassAllWineColored

@expansionsss - the jaded gamer: To be fair, your standard Mario Golf is 6 courses, and in the first two games, the average hole was well designed, so much so that IMO it worth having less courses than say, Tiger Woods.

So one can hope they don't piss away that IP with a substandard game.

The question is: if they don't get Camelot on board for a 3rd Mario Golf, what other group of people at Nintendo's disposal could make a good one?

headcase

Funny, I read that, and I didn't get that he made a mistake at all. The article says he did that on purpose because he didn't really like Golf in Wii Sports because you have to swing the remote hard rather than taking your entire backswing into account. He announced it to pretty much force the development team to add a fixed golf to the game.

Miyamoto also lied to the dev team a couple times, telling them that Iwata demanded features that Iwata never did. It was no mistake, it's just one of the ways Miyamoto gets what he wants without arguing.

Dreamwriter

*whip cracks* Don't mess with the Shiggy

@Ferkner: Cusual gamers make me so ongry!

Showmeyomoves!

@GriefTroll: Yep, I've played the Japanese version extensively. As well as a dogfighting mode, there's one where you fly over finding points of interest, flagged up by a green 'i' icon. There are eighty to find, and some of them are quite tricky. For every ten you spot, you get something new - firstly balloons start appearing which you can shoot as you're flying, then you get the option to fly around at sundown etc. etc.

It's a shame you can't explore the island on foot in a way, though I imagine from Miyamoto's comments that's possibly going to happen in a future game.

InTheGrassAllWineColored

Don't you mean:

...recounts the story with a "(laughs)"

bassbeast

@AChirino: It goes to 11.

haseoreo

@GriefTroll: falling on the island reminded me a lot of pilotwing, I wish they would retake that IP, with the wii controls the jet pack whould be awesome.

The Triforce sir, he holds the power of the Golden Land.

@aevanko: And you are a real gamer? Please. You're an elitist idiot. People who play video games are games, whether it's casually or not. Their lives don't have to revolve around games like yours does for them to be "real" gamers.

And how you misspelled casual when the A and the U are nowhere near each other is beyond me.

Ferkner

@grifmasta enforces: I, for one, welcome our new Miyamoto overlords......

ShaggyB

It's such a Japanese thing to do. My boss once got two employees confused, one of whom had recently quit. She then said "Oh, he doesn't work here anymore."
Instead of pointing out her error, the other employee was quietly and immediately fired.
...
..
.
No, not really.
But it could happen!

erlik

Good, but still, should have included even more new holes..

Wahrheit

@InTheGrassAllWineColored: I'm really looking forward to exploring the island. You can fly over the whole thing during the dogfighting game (whatever it's called) including the golf course.

I've been watching the wiifolder multiplayer vids of the game and it looks like an absolute blast.

@Foggynotion: sadly George W Bush had the same impression on the government, when he screwed up in a speech saying that the estate tax (aka the "death" tax) would be repealed. That led to Congress creating the law which basically reduced the tax each year until in 2010 when it didn't exist (but would go right back into existence in 2011). So Miyamoto, and W - the unlikeliest of buddies

themaninthebox

I want to thank everyone for these comments! It has made my day. This is why I have a picture of Miyamoto hanging up at work and everyone is like (Who the hell is that..).

This game will sell 20 million copies at the very least

Timothy Saskiewicz

@phinehas: Now that's quality commenting!

@Josh Faul:

+1 good sir

SwKninja

Miyamoto = God

bluem4gic

@Gloibin: Same. Can't wait to see if it's any more accurate as well, I was fine with regular controls, but a little more accuracy is always nice.

Now that's covering your butt.... LIKE A BOSS

cfive3

Nice.

The new golf is the selling point for me. Two 18-hole courses? My friends and I have dumped whole days into playing the same nine over and over again already. Can't wait.

@Foggynotion:
And we're not sure about the pope.

TrjnRabbit

@AChirino:
Isn't that pretty much how he works? He says or thinks of something and Nintendo makes it happen because he's Shigeru fucking Migamoto.

TrjnRabbit

Funny that these games that are "such high production value" and "take time to make" can be whipped up so quickly by developers.

I imagine it took a few guys a long weekend to fill Miyamoto's promise, hell they probably prepped work for Mario Wii Golf Plus too, just plug and play in the characters and add some goofy stuff to the courses and walah ! Another $50 game that is strangely familiar to the last.

you know, the wii sports resort golf also happens to be about 300,000% better than wii sports golf.

that math is in no way exaggerated, either.

@NitroAML: What? He can finish off the final boss in like 3 second now.

neogeocdz

@AChirino:
Infinite God Mode.

@Xelioth: Yeah.. because hardcore gamers make up the most hardware sales???

I think both the PS2 and Wii have shown that they had large casual audiences.

Comban will Ban you.

@SansSanity: Pokemon?

@TheExiledLeader: Yeah if Molyneaux was at Nintendo they'd be bust by now. But their games would be amazing.

@Go Go Gadget: Gizmo: Everyone likes their own brand!

spannu

"dammit, miyamoto-san was shooting off his mouth"
"can't we just say it was a mistake? like how microsoft's balmer-san said there was a 'new xbox'?"
"no, that would be cheaper and the sane thing to do"
" and..?"
"shut-up and help with the final designs of the vitality sensor"

The inclusion of golf is nice, but I've done it before and I don't think it adds much to Wii Sports Resort. The question I have is if the game's frisbee golf is also to thank for this. It would have been a shame not to have frisbee golf.

On the other hand, if frisbee golf was planned anyway, how much work could it have been to import Wii Sports golf with a few little changes, especially if the courses were going to be there for frisbee anyway?

Airion

Miyamoto: His word is LAW.

Esper mind tricks

@ryanfrost13: Dig Dug was such a casual game. Now, Pitfall, that was a game!

lol that was hilarious!

BelindaBucco

@Mr. Mattican (Raises Monicle): I actually laughed at this. Good one, sir.

strawberrycream

@aevanko: Damn cusual gamers.

Showmeyomoves!

He should screw up and say that they're getting rid of friend codes.

Josh Faul

That's... geez, so they added an entire game because he said so? I guess you don't argue with him.

Lozmaster

@AChirino: He should goof up and say "no more friend codes."

Josh Faul

@AChirino: Tri-power off course.

elmorepow

@NitroAML: WHAT? NINE THOUSAND?!

@AChirino: HIS POWER LEVEL IS OVER 9000!

@Xelioth: Farts are gross. So is Wii Music.

Farts don't sound pleasant and when you hear one you usually try to move away from the source.

Same with Wii Music.

Interesting to note that Miyamoto says Resort was originally planned as a mix of winter sports and marine sports. Wii Winter Sports next, anyone? (Mind you, I guess Mario+Sonic sequel has that covered.)

Also, more talk about the island being used again - perhaps for an adventure game of some sort. Seems like Miyamoto has something in the planning stages at least.

It'd be great if they set Pikmin 3 on WuHu Island. Or made it a secret galaxy in Mario Galaxy 2.

InTheGrassAllWineColored

@Foggynotion: So how do you put four Miyamoto's in a Voxwagen?

SansSanity

@Xelioth: Thanks for trying!

@Ueziel: Really? I wonder if Mario Golf on Gameboy Color pulled courses from there too, then. There's a course in that game and Wii Sports Golf that's very short (the course you can get a hole-in-one on), but definitely identical in both games.

I say good on Nintendo. When game makers make a promise of a game feature, that ought to be delivered in the final product. Far too many games (especially with MMORPGs) don't deliver on promises and advertised features (even game features advertised right on the retail box).

wonderboy13

@Xelioth: Then you're looking for wit in all the wrong places, buddy.

Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky

Miyamoto: "You know 'grade A' models will fall from the sky and have sex with me"
'looks at sky with open mouth smile'

Mr. Mattican (Puts on Monicle)

I'm impressed with this. Instead of correcting his mistake later, or just not including it, they actually made it and added it in!

It's like the exact opposite of Peter Molyneaux!

Takara_Kitsune

@aevanko: ah yes, the real game r market, good to know there are the brave "real" gamers out there and not those strange cardboard ones. wonder how the atari 2600 generation would have been if we had hard nosed elitists trying to shove us out when we were playing dig dug and combat, that would have sucked.

ryanfrost13

@[en.wikipedia.org]

spannu

But will it still use courses from the totally forgotten NES Open Tournament Golf? Because the best part of playing the first Wii Sports Golf game was realizing that it was using holes from that.

NOW I SEE HOW THE WII WAS MADE,
Miyamoto had a dev Gamecube on top of a regular Gamecube, and was caught playing with a laser pointer.

@aevanko: no, but their financial advisers can about 2 months after the release of their next console that no one buys =P

@phinehas: :D

Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky

@phinehas: I'm trying to see the wit here. REALLY trying. but I just can't...

Can he accidentally say in an interview that Nintendo is switching their focus from the cusual gamer market to the real gamer market?

aevanko

@phinehas: (I kid. I actually don't think Wii Music is as bad as the so-called "hardcore" make it out to be.)

@AChirino:THE POWER OF GREYSKULL!!

you know, that or they just ran with it since the entire game was already built, they just needed to make it look resort-like.

So when he farted during that E3 '08 interview is that when they decided to make Wii Music?

@TheExiledLeader: peter molyneux should take note...

karofermanyan

I hope he makes a mistake about Pikmin 3 coming in 09, then.

>:(

Gorilla Snow is Maximum Risky

Only Miyamoto and the Pope are that infallible.

That's....a bit ridiculous.

all hail!

Damn if only all developers were this thorough with their promises!

Instead of correcting Miyamoto's error, they just went with it. What kind of power does this man have!?

AChirino

Oh Miyamoto, you card.

SolidOni