Remember, Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto doesn’t just make games, he plays them. And one that he’s liked a lot over the last few years has been Minecraft, though not necessarily because it’s something he likes playing. It’s because he wishes Nintendo had made it instead.
In an interview with Glixel, Mario’s creator says “I do like Minecraft, but really more from the perspective of the fact that I really feel like that’s something we should have made.”
“We had actually done a lot of experiments that were similar to that back in the N64 days and we had some designs that were very similar. It’s really impressive to me to see how they have been able to take that idea and turn it into a product.”
You know, when you break it down and look at what Minecraft was originally doing, and not necessarily what it’s become over the years, at its heart it really does seem like a very Nintendo kind of experience. Just with more dicks.
As for the design experiments he was talking about, it’s worth remembering that there was a lot of stuff going on in the 90s at Nintendo that, sadly, we never got to play.
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4 responses to “Miyamoto’s Minecraft Regret”
Thankfully for the rest of us they didn’t.
Think of all those youtubers and streamers who would have been strangled out of existence by Nintendo’s litigious approach to letsplays
Yeah, I gotta say I am glad they didn’t. One of the reasons Minecraft is still so big today is the modding community and the use of the game in education. It’s because it was a PC game that this could happen. If the game was a Nintendo game, there would be no mods, and it’s unlikely to have made its way into schools.
A minecraft subject to Nintendo’s “burn it all” attitude to let’s plays would have had nowhere near the success minecraft today has. Not to mention it would have ended up being a neat novelty game for a single generation of one console rather than being ported to everything everywhere.
Wow, way for folks to ruin the tone of the story.
Truth is everyone wishes they made Minecraft, it’s now solidified in gaming history and was one of the biggest contributors to the legitimacy of the indie scene.