Metroid Designer Talks Metroid Prime II, EyeToy

Posted by simoniker on Monday September 1, 2003 @01:51PM from the irish-metroid-featuring-shamus dept.

Thanks to C+VG for their interview with Yoshio Sakamoto, a key designer on the Metroid titles, and now manager of Nintendo's notable R&D1 development studio. He talks about Sony's EyeToy USB camera game ("...if it's quite a unique product it's a shame Nintendo didn't come up with that kind of idea"), Retro's in-development Metroid Prime sequel ("my involvement with Metroid Prime II is like my involvement with the first one - I am advising them as to what kind of flavor they have to adhere to, and the kind of storylines possible"), and makes it clear that Nintendo are actively working on follow-up hardware ("Nintendo is always working on the next generation of systems, be it handheld or console game machines.")

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Eyetoy: Nothing new here by Stubtify · 2003-09-01 19:50 · Score: 3, Insightful

Quite a unique product? My Intel USB video camera has had games based on it for at least 4 years. There's one with a ball that you hit by, well hitting the ball. Another equally stupid game had something to do with a ribbon I think.
I really don't think the eyetoy can grab the attention of the (US) ps2 crowd very well unless sony comes up with a killer app for it. On the PC side this hasn't been gaming, but instead video conferencing. I'd pay $30-50 to be able to see family halfway across the country, but to hit a ball onscreen by waving my arm, I'd have to pass.