"This is an area that I have a lot of interest in, and I think that the side-scrolling Mario games in particular are well suited to that idea,"
No Miyamoto. What are you doing? The Mario series is a sacred tradition, like watching Glenn Beck every night. You don't give US the tools to make a Mario game. What else, you think that's gonna be the future of gaming?
"And I think those types of interactive experiences are going to continue to broaden and we'll see a lot more user-generated content going forward. I've always had an interest in those kinds of creative tools, so I will definitely be open to ideas like that in the future."
Of course, this was met with opposition, and not just from your local conservative nutcase gamer. But also from professional analyst Sean Malstrom, who calls Miyamoto a liability and thinks he should retire, because of this.
And people wonder why I don’t stop harping on ‘User Generated Content’. Nintendo never abandoned it.
There has been no success stories of User Generated Content in any form on any medium. Any “success” is something that is given away free and has users but not customers such as Wikipedia or Youtube (and Youtube still loses money!).
Just look at all those people rushing to buy PS3s for LittleBigPlanet for its ‘user generated content’. Despite its massive hype, the game never struck any lightning. It is liked more as a 2d platformer (which there is demand for) than anything with ‘user generated content’.
Exactly. User Generated Content has, and will never be accepted by the gaming community at all. I mean look at DooM, look at Quake and Unreal. Look at the Warcraft series. It was going strong and all, then non-gamers came in and ruined it because they can create their own content for it. Even the old Sims game was ruined by User Generated Content according to now disbarred and neglected attorney, Jack Thompson, back in 2005. And then there was RPG Maker.
Oh and I strongly agree with Little Big Planet. That game wasn't hot with gamers, even though almost 2.5 million Liberal PS3 owners from around the globe bought it. What do 2.5 million gamers have to do with this when they can buy more generic shooters and RPGs for their PS3s. But what does that have to do with Mario? Well Sean, take it away.
"But it is time for Miyamoto to retire. I remember his interview in Nintendo Power about the creation of Super Mario Brothers 3. He said the game was about further exploration of the Mushroom Kingdom. And when you think back on that game, you do not think of SMB 3 as about flying or about the map screen. Everyone thinks about the fleshed out content of the worlds, of how different everything seemed from stage to stage, and how the game (of old 2d Mario in general) to absorb you into a fantastical world."
"But now we are going to get ‘User Generated Content’ Mario which would ultimately destroy Mario."
That's right. The Mario series was built on expanding a universe and Miyamoto will destroy it by letting us, the people, design the game. To Sonic fans out there who claim SEGA Destroyed Sonic, you're wrong. Dead wrong. You see, the Sonic series is far from being destroyed. Sure you may have had a gun-totting Hedgehog, a Hedgehog kissing a human, A Hedgehog turning into a Werehog, a Hedgehog teaming up with a plumber in the Olympics, a Hedgehog and a Snake in Smash Bros, and a Hedgehog voiced by Steve Urkel. But to truly destroy Sonic, you have to give the user the ability to create their own levels and stages.
People stand up against User Generated Content, because once it takes over, you may become addicted to it, and destroy the cash cow of a gaming franchise it is.
Works Cited: Joystiq
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