Miyamoto on WiiWare: “America has always been better at creating unique products”
I think America has always been better at creating unique products,” says Miyamoto, the head of Nintendo’s game-development division and creator of Super Mario Bros.
“In Japan, the technology required to create videogames tends to be concentrated in the bigger corporations,” says Miyamoto. Game publishers tend to make conservative games that will always be profitable, rather than taking risks on experimental games, he says.
The difference with America, says Miyamoto, is its thriving garage-games movement. “Here in the United States, you have these independent developers who have managed to get the skills and the training and the development, and also have managed to get access to the technology and the hardware needed to develop it,” he says. “They’re able to let their own personality and their own kind of unique interests really flourish in the games that they’re creating.”
