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Miyamoto Says He's Solved Co-op Issue In Mario Galaxy

Posted by Zonk on from the itsa-me dept.

In the fourth volume of the ongoing series of interviews between Nintendo's Iwata and the Mario Galaxy team, design legend Shigeru Miyamoto puts forth the opinion that he thinks he's nailed two-player Mario. That opinion is bolstered by Japanese sales figures, which shows the plumber doing quite well for his umpteenth outing. "Miyamoto: 'For every game I worked on, there were always times when I would keep discussing the issue of two-player simultaneous gameplay, and the staff also became conscious of the challenge, so every development team kept trying hard to solve it too. Though I think that might also have been because they thought if they didn't deal with it first, I'd come in and ask how it was coming along for sure! (laughs).'" Via Kotaku.

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  1. Itsa-me dept. by Dr.+Eggman · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wow, two different articles from the same department, that's like a record considering most of the time we get the same article from two different departments! Seriously* I've heard of companies that seem constantly undergoing a reorg, but Slashdot's restructuring is just ridiculous!

    *I'm as serious as there is a lack of sarcasm in this sentence.

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  2. Do what now? by illegalcortex · · Score: 1, Funny

    This has to be the most content-free article in a while. All this boils down to is:

    A two player mode is hard to come up with.
    We thought about it.
    We like what we came up with.

    I can't believe they took a whole article to say that.

    1. Re:Do what now? by fractoid · · Score: 2, Funny

      Players one and two
      We think you will like to play
      With your two players

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  3. I'm not lying! by lpangelrob · · Score: 3, Funny

    Miyamoto: Anyway, we had a lot of people play the game, and we observed them, had them write about their impressions, things like that. I analysed those reports as I read them, noting things like how people might have written "It was fun," but they didn't look like they were having fun...

    As an Asian, I would just like to note that that is so Asian...

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  4. Two-player co-op is new? by FlyByPC · · Score: 3, Funny

    Didn't Gauntlet have four-way cooperative playing a looong time ago?

    (To this day, I still sometimes catch myself thinking: "Wizard needs food -- badly.")

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    1. Re:Two-player co-op is new? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yes, Gauntlet was certainly the first Mario game with co-op.