Topic: Nintendo's Methods of Quality Control

[Kairon]

Wired: Nintendo is huge now. How do you maintain quality control?

Miyamoto: I'm always instructing my game designers on the history of the characters and worlds we've created. Often we're in development and I'll say, "Oh, this looks like a Sega game. We need to make it look more like Mario."

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-07/st_15miyamoto

[ShyGuy]

Did Miyamoto just upend Sega's tea table?

[Nick DiMola]

Nintendo needs to buy Sega and bring some respect back to their IPs.

[Plugabugz]

Buy Amusement Vision and get them to make F-Zero moar pls.

[Smash_Brother]

I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he meant that it doesn't look like Nintendo's style but someone else's style.

[GoldenPhoenix]

I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that he meant that it doesn't look like Nintendo's style but someone else's style.

Yeah but that isn't nearly as funny then!

[Ian Sane]

I think this is an accidental diss like when you ask someone if they've lost weight and then realize afterwards you were implying they were fat before.

I do find it funny that he's instructing the devs on the history and worlds of the characters.  Shiggy must have a horrible memory because Nintendo is TEH SH!TS with continuity.

Though Nintendo games do have a distinct Nintendo-style to them and it's not suprising to see that it's deliberate.  Makes you wonder however what Nintendo is going to be like when Miyamoto retires.

[LuigiHann]

Yeah. I never had a Sega when I was a kid, but going back and playing some of those games now, they just feel different from Nintendo games.

[animecyberrat]

Different is not bad though, maybe not on the same plane of existence as Nintendo's stuff but they had some good **** back in the day. They still do have some good **** even now, it just gets drowned out by the not as good stuff so people make a lot of noise.