The man who made Mario and Zelda needs you to tell him something, Kotaku. As I was concluding my interview with him at E3 last week, I asked if he had anything else he’d like Kotaku readers to know. Oh, he did. But he also wanted to know something that only you can answer.
Here’s Miyamoto (with his question bolded for emphasis)…
Shigeru Miyamoto: So certainly, for Kotaku readers, they know there are a lot of different hardware platforms, and I hope that they look at those as necessarily a competition between all the platforms but really that each platform has its own uniqueness.
One of the uniquenesses of Wii U [is that] this is a device that’s really suited to being connected to the TV in your living room, and it has a lot of very convenient applications that you can use there. We’re going to continue to design our games in a way that are suited to play in the living room — whether it’s one person playing and everyone enjoying that by watching — but we’re also working on a number of additional games that we’re designing and releasing next year as well.
We hope that everybody is looking forward to that and that we’re designing experiences that you can only do on the Wii U GamePad so I hope everyone will support us and look forward to our products.
Maybe you can do a poll for Kotaku readers to see which game you want us to make for Wii U, and, if you get a good answer, you can give us a call.
Stephen Totilo: What’s your phone number?
[laughter]
OK, everyone, it’s time to tell Miyamoto which game(s) you want for the Wii U. Chime in below.
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76 responses to “Shigeru Miyamoto Has A Question For All Of You”
Spotify.
That should count for any console.
Cross-platform pokemon.
But a proper game.
It doesn’t have to be an MMO, but a fully-fledged, pokemon game on Wii U would be great, as long as the portable series continues.
err…Metroid would be nice.
Something worth playing… I dunno, honestly. There just doesn’t seem to be a reason to buy a U. Or a One, or a 4. The new R9 290 was definitely worth it, though.
– A new 2D sidescrolling Metroid. A reboot – a re-telling of the original Metroid with everything they’ve learnt across the years.
– Majora’s Mask HD – rebuilding the classic from the ground up, Master Quest re-mixes of dungeons etc.
– A fully fleshed out Pokemon RPG. A single-player experience with an entire multiplayer suite, trade station, etc.
– More Virtual Console games. Bring SNES, N64, Gamecube games to the virtual console.
They’re brining N64 games to the virtual console.
Cool. Bring SNES and Gamecube games with them! 😀
Did you not play Zero Mission?
Nope!
You’re missing out!
Best remake of anything ever.
Wow!
It was Metroid 1 remade using Metroid Fusion’s engine on Advance.
Exactly what you want!!
Also, upvote for MMHD instead of MM3D.
yea a new metroid would be nice. having a 2d side scroller would be awesome, although i have a feeling that nintendo will choose the fps over it instead for the wii u and leave the platforming for the 3ds.
I say let Nintendo employees spend 6 months breaking off into small indie teams and release a couple dozen new experiences, sell on eShop and whatever sticks you can turn into new IP.
Nintendo’s problem is stagnation. There could be the next big idea inside one of Nintendo’s younger employee’s but he’s too busy polishing the mustache animations on New Super Mario Bros Wii U 2.
If you think about how many cool new ideas came out of the last Double Fine Amnesia Fortnight and multiply that by Nintendo, you get awesome.
Something like this might be an idea…although it leaves Nintendo potentially open to being copied and beaten to the punch by other developers. So…
I definately think that it’s important for Nintendo to re-visit their classic franchises each console generation (except 2d Mario), because these are central to its identity. However, this needs to be balanced by experimentation with gameplay ideas that aren’t possible in Mario/Zelda/Metroid, etc. Splatoon is a good start, and an example of the sort of thing they should be doing more of. Captain toad as well i guess is doing a different type of gameplay…
At the end of the day, I personally couldn’t think up anything conceptually as brilliant and strange as Pikmin for example. I think Nintendo needs to worry less about gaming trends (i.e. online competitive multiplayer, MOBA’s, 1st person shooters, etc..) and what people like us think, and just make the sort of games THEY think will be FUN to play that are inclusive, but not necessarily dumbed-down, and that are ‘unique’.
I want to see games that are artistically distinct and provide a unique spin on traditional gameplay. Pikmin is a game that does this very well, and I do think RTS type gameplay is a perfect fit for the wii u gamepad.
I think Nintendo are at their best when they are experimenting rather than iterating/refining fwiw.
N.B. I’m really not into jRPG’s, so not too many of those please…unless it’s some weirdass thing like Earthbound, or a Mario RPG sequel perhaps.
Exactly, Nintendo has always given us what we didn’t know we wanted. Now, though, they’ve practically annualised the Mario franchise and are re-iterating everything else.
We talk about big budget, AAA games being this unhealthy practice of risk-free investments, but Nintendo seem just as guilty as Activision or EA at this point. And it’s indie games people are now turning to for a fresh experience – that used to be Nintendo.
AAA Console grade RPG of the pokemon series!! that covers each of the regions in a similar way that Gold flowed from johto onto kanto!! and accessibility to all of the pokemon!!
A HD remake of the prime trilogy or a new 3d metroid NOT BY TEAM NINJA.
upvoting for the “not by Team Ninja”
Team Ninja are great at what they do, but they should not be allowed anywhere near Metroid ever again…
I understand where you’re coming from with the no Team Ninja thing, their games have been going to shit since Itagaki left after NG2. However, they weren’t the ones who wrote the story. The credit for that would go to Sakamoto, the guy who co-created the original Metroid. Ideally, just let Retro make a new Prime and keep Sakamoto distracted and we’re good.
no doubt THE LAST STORY 2
this was a game I could not stop playing
irresistible
Super Mario Sunshine Galaxy 64, of course. A full Mario Adventure is usually what spurs me to buy the latest Nintendo console.
On the other hand, new ideas are needed for new characters and games.
All together now: Pokémon MMO!
Honestly, I think it would be really cool to have another iteration of F-Zero. It’s a franchise that Nintendo has let lie for far too long. I feel like the Advance Wars would be a perfect fit for the Wii U controller, so it would be really cool to see a brand-new game in the series on Nintendo’s home console. I’d also like to see a traditional base-building RTS that employed the graphical style of the original StarCraft or Warcraft 2. The Wii U’s touchpad makes it the console of choice for strategy games and I’d really like to see it used more often.
Finally, (and I know this will probably seem weird) I feel like an Ice Climber reboot would be interesting. Their presence in Smash Bros puts them in an interesting position, in which so many people know about them, but only a fraction of those people have actually played their game. The Ice Climbers have been left untapped for so long, but if Kid Icarus can be redone in such a great way, they can too.
sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who wants a new F-Zero game…!
F-ZERO!!! My eyes have recovered from the gamecube version and my body is ready for a WiiU version
Have you ever played ‘Climber’ the game & watch spin-off from Ice Climbers? A new take on that would be great – most fun G&W ever!
A star fox game without gimmicks. Like 64 but in new locations. No motion controls being vital to game play or anything no. Just on rails Arwing fun with branching paths. That’s what I’d love to see
And 4 player co-op with 16 player online dogfights
I know its been said before but, a new Pokemon Snap game using gamepad as a camera.
1.Metroid 2d & 3d,
2. Wasn’t there supposed to be metroid hunter spinoffs involving the other hunters?
3. Pokemon vs metroid
4. Phoenix wright vs judge dread
5. A nintendo mecha game
6. A metroid encylcopedia game like the pokedex
7. Nintendo rythme game based on their impressive music library
8. An expendables like game with their female characters
9. A game solely dedicated to only cats
10. A battleship game
A new Starfox with co-op as an option. Make it feel like we’re on an adventure on different planets. The GC version had too little flying & crap ground adventures
A new Metroid Prime with co-op option as well. The Nintendo Land missions were fun but we need to use those moves in an adventure game.
I find that the gamepad is a really unique device that can be used effectively to hide actions from other players. In saying that a game that would utilize this in a game mechanic would be really cool. Just of the top of my head a dungeon master game, where the other players need to traverse through levels where the “5th” player would control enemies by commanding them down certain paths would be really interesting. Players could go up levels, maybe even use the amiibos to make it nintendo oriented.
*shrugs* Just a new game?
F-Zero
Why are there no other upvotes on this??
A FPS that isn’t a sci-fi shooter.
Or Splatoon that isn’t limited to shooting ink, but maybe having game-play similar to smash bros where players have damage gauges with the same goal of blasting your opponents out of the arena/map
Omg.. It’s not fricking rocket science. Pump out a Mario game that’s like Mario 64 yet bigger, better and grander! Also get a console version of Pokemon going…. And Metroid!
fzero!!!!!!!! metroid (2d or 3d) castlevania 2d (action-platformer rather than backtracking exploarathon).
side scrolling metroid with controls that feel exactly like samus does in SSBM.
Wouldn’t mind another chapter of Tactics Ogre, though I imagine that’s out his hands. An isometric RPG utilizing the dual screen would be fun.
I want to see them make a Samus game (un-Metroid related) with the same design principle as the upcoming Legend of Zelda game -a completely open world. Although more an open universe idea, where you have a set number of planets & space stations to explore.
Mix 3rd & 1st person perspectives using the GamePad & have the plot more to do with Samus’ bounty hunting life. Set after the Metroid series.
Other than that: a new Pokemon like IP that does the MMORPG thing, to make trading & battling easier.
But want to see an new IP with a new female character that doesn’t revert to tropes of weakness or hypernsexualisation.
I would like to see a pokemon game similar to that of Pokemon Colosseum or XD, that has a proper rpg mode, and can do wifi trade with the 3DS and other Wii U systems.
I also think that they should release a Gamecube Virtual console mode, as they releasing an adaptor for Smash Brothers.
HD versions of the strongest Wii games
A new Pokémon Colosseum instalment would be great. Shadow Pokémon were just cool, as well as snagging.
-Licence D&D
-Make game based around Dungeon Master vs hero party, kind of like a multiplayer dungeon keeper with D&D rules
-Game should have option of being played as action or turn based to suit preference of players (eg: Diablo style or Xcom style)
-Game should contain a wide selection of classic D&D modules which dungeon master can run and modify on the fly as well as having a full and easy to use editor to make new scenarios/maps. The created scenarios should be sharable on a user content marketplace akin to Trials Fusion’s Track Central.
-Game MUST be playable as local, online and combination.
-Dungeon Master has tablet controller and free view to move & interact. Players have a locked view centred around their character, basic controllers have abilities/items hotkeyed or tablet controllers have hotbars/inventories displayed.
-Make the game also playable single player from any role, AI heroes vs human DM or human player with henchmen vs AI DM
-Ideally the game should have a built in replay function to capture the cool moments, both for the fun of the players and as free PR for the game.
That right there would strongly tempt me to get a WiiU
As a backup plan, if they can’t get the D&D licence, make the exact same style of game but as a contemporary setting, some kind of cops vs criminals thing
This idea is golden!! D&D would be great using the WiiU-mote to make the DM choices
and if it is made with the intricacy of the true D&D game, people could have their D&D nights online over their WiiU, would open up the genre up to more people who have less time on their hands
GiFTPiA 2!
* crickets *
Pokémon Snap 2! The tablet is perfect for use as a digital camera!
The Wii U desperately needs to see Battalion Wars 3.
The gamepad is freakin MADE for that game. Just look at how Pikmin worked out with more of a strategy game type command system.
Also of course, some F-Zero would be nice.
Third-party support would be nice.
A new Suikoden game.
Or more platformers similar to the Rare days.
I would love to see a new Fire Emblem. In the same vein as Radiant Dawn. I know that game didn’t get much (enough) attention, but Awakening was labelled “the reason to buy a 3DS” when it was released. Just sayin.
new 64-like Mario… with a huge open world that links to many levels (like the paintings did in 64). I’d love a new metroid, kid icarus and star fox but I’m nor greedy 🙂
There are so many franchises lost in the pages of gaming history its ridiculous.
Here are a few that could be reinvented into modern classics:
– Battletoads
– Kungfu (absolute all time classic!!)
– Double Dragon
– Jurassic park (seriously not enough Dinosaur games. Kids LOVE dinosaurs!!)
– Duck Hunt
– Commando
– River Raid
– Basketball Nightmare (love silly games that make no sense)
– Skate or Die
– Track and Field (not everyone wants to be Mario)
– A Boy and his Blob
– Bionic Commando
Pokemon Snap 2.
I concur!!
A million times this. Using the gamepad as the camera with a control scheme like the google street view apo already on the wii u so you could adjust angle with the sticks but also grab control with the gyro for an immersion overload.
Edit* online leaderboards but still on rails gameplay or perhaps a selection of safari zone type stages too with time limits. Hell. Ill design the game from the ground up
The game would look gorgeous.
I’d love to see the asymmetrical stuff fleshed out a bit more. And I got a few ideas I’m willing to give away for free.
Like a Pac-Man game where the ghost are on the TV in first person (or 3rd just behind) and Pac-Man gets the whole map on the game pad.
Something similar to the King of Zombies mode on ZomiU. But more like a full game. Game pad sees the whole map with an RTS style. TV players in FPS mode. People could play local multi-player TV players vs. gamepad player. Or co-op with all local players on the same team against the computer or against other teams online.
The old Alien vs Predator games had some great asymmetrical gameplay, and recreating that on the Wii U could be lots of fun. player with the Gamepad could play as the Alien or Predator and the TV players can play as the marines. The game doesn’t really have to be the AvP IP but the idea would be the same. One stealthy character against 4 non-stealth characters.
Also Nintendo, if your looking for a new game designer just hit me up.
After reading this article, I begun to have a quick little think of cool ways which could utilise the GamePad and the Television as separate things. First thing I thought of was something that could be both a viable multiplayer option or single player. I thought maybe it would be interesting to do an entirely new game (IP).
A tale about a bird-tamer who is able to use his birds. These birds – of all different sizes, from a dove to an eagle, to oversized predator birds of some kind – can be played as using the gamepad by a second player. I was thinking a 3D platformer kind of game with puzzles that require the combination of the tamer and the birds themselves; of course, this is a suggestion so the genre is up to him entirely, though open-world would be most fitting, methinks.
I dunno, I just think that it would be interesting to see where they go with the concept of a tamer and his birds, I think it could make a fun game with a rich plot. Hey, it could even have battle modes or something, or perhaps something different. By jove, I’d love this to be a submitted idea but it depends on whether he himself would find it an interesting concept, as well as others here. Thoughts? Ideas? Improvements?
F-ZERO (!!!)
I know the likelihood of a new F-Zero game being made is low given how many other racers are around at the moment, but even an HD remake of GX would be good. It would presumably be a lot cheaper than a full new game and would be a good way to poll interest in the series while also throwing a bone to loyal fans of the series, plus it could be an amazing graphical showcase for the Wii U!
P.s. Tell Miyamoto that I wrote an essay about him in primary school haha
1) A new mario game in the vein of super mario 64 taking everthing they learnt from the galaxy series and applying it.
2) a fully fledged 3D open world pokemon game, i cannot express how good this would be.
Thankyou Mr Myamoto for asking such a awesome question!
3rd party games
Not necessarily 3rd party exclusives, but 3rd party games that everyone else gets so you can confidently buy one as your sole platform
i doubt a proper pokemon game, even an mmo, will ever make its way to anything other than a handheld. its a system seller, why cut into the handheld sales? and what does a pokemon mmo bring that X and Y didnt? that being said, a pokemon snap 2 or a pokemon fighting game(pokken fighters?) would be sick. or take battletoads and give it to platinum games and tell them to make it, or tell them to make wonderful 102.
I want a Family friendly Multiplayer FPS Staring Donkey Kong.
Imagine a Local Multiplayer FPS where the Maps are active like a Donkey kong level, moving platforms, multiple enemies in the environment, Environmental Effects that can kill you ect. And A health system that involved consuming Ammo (re Fruit in this game) to heal yourself.
I mean monkeys shooting fruit at each other in crazy DK inspired enviroments. Who doesn’t want to play that.
Imagine Running around a pirate ship in a massive storm trying to shoot other monkeys.
Or having a sniper Duel in a jungle canopy above quicksand, where the only way to get around is Blast Barrels, or Playing in a large cylindrical hollowed out tree, with platforms on the side ad a tornado in the middle.
Also Metroid Prime Trilogy HD
I posted another comment later.
But Yes this. Starring Donkey kong and Friends. Monkeys shooting fruit at other monkeys trying to knock each other out
F ZERO
METROID
I wouldn’t mind ‘rebuying’ HD versions of old school gaming classics.
For example an HD version of Punch Out that, similar to Rayman Legends, lets you unlock HD versions of ALL the old versions of Punch Out. Keep the patterns the same but just make the graphics HD. 007 373 5963 😉
First person Megaman
Super Mario Galaxy Wii U, PLEASE. Oh, and while you’re at it, would putting Donkey Kong 64 on the Wii U Virtual Console be too much trouble? A Pokemon MMO and Pokemon Snap 2 would be lovely as well 🙂
Super Mario 64 / Galaxy successor PLZ! 3D world is not my favorite game.
Punch Out would be good too.
Punch U Out!
People who buy Nintendo hardware do it for one of two reasons. Either the classic Nintendo franchises – or for the games that are a bit off the beaten track, that you can’t get anywhere else.
I bought my Wii not for Mario, but for Xenoblade and The Last Story, because they were new approaches to a genre that is getting a bit stale. Nintendo need to look for those gaps in the market and exploit them. It may not be JRPGs; just any genre where the market has moved on but the players don’t necessarily agree with the direction it’s moved.
Kotaku spends most of year complaining how Nintendo doesn’t make new IP’s. When asked what game they want, list old games.
Team up with Square-Enix for some retro-style, but new “Secret of” games.
New Evermore, new Mana, Seiken Densetsu, but not like the ones that were on the DS, the gameplay just didn’t stand up to the snes days.
GB Donkey Kong 94 style platformer. I want to backflip again so bad
*goes back to emulator for the thousandth time*
I would like to see some of their lesser known games to come out here.
Also, how about releasing the Project Zero games here as well?