Nintendo has always been known to be notoriously silent when it comes to talking about games, consoles, the future and any other rumor that the gossip mill generates about the company on a daily basis.
Their silence makes fans turn to each other in an attempt to speculate what the company will do next or what the future will do. It also makes gamers hack into system files or other Nintendo information sources to try and get some information about what the company is working on.
This is why whenever a producer or game developer comes out and speaks to a member of the media, everyone likes to get updated as to what was discussed. So, recently Kosuke Yabuki spoke to Nikkei. Kosuke who is the producer (and director of the Wii U release of Mario Kart 8) had a lot of interesting points to share.
Yabuki and his ;staff, in particular, choose to uphold former president Satoru Iwata’s philosophy of making the Mario ;games ;accessible to as many people as possible. This plays into his answer about how even after “5 years after the game’s release, that appeal hasn’t faded”. This is very true considering the game has now sold more than 40 million copies.
While answering why he thought the popularity of the game is still on the rise and he said it had a lot to do with the game’s unique initiatives like getting to throw stuff at your opponent in an attempt to make them lose. We can agree with this completely, the game’s unique mechanisms have always stood out and led the way in innovation.
If you are interested in reading a bit more about the interview, you can check it out here.
