Super Mario Run släpps denna vecka och det råder nog inga tveksamheter över att det faktiskt är den mest hypade premiären av ett Iphone-spel sedan Apple först släppte sin hyllade mobiltelefon. Inför releasen har Nintendo fått ta emot en del svidande kritik dock. Först och främst är det priset (100 kronor) som av mången spelsugen Iphone-ägare anses som väl häftigt, sen är det även det konstanta internet-kravet som gör att det kastats svidande salvor av skepsis mot Mario-skaparna. I en nygjord intervju med tekniksiten Glizel har nu Shigeru Miyamoto pratat lite om varför de valde den modell som de valde för Super Mario Run och varför de aldrig ens funderade på att göra det till ett free-to-play-spel.
"On the Nintendo side we'd been talking a lot about going into the mobile space but we hadn't decided that we were going to make a Mario game for smartphones," he said. "As we were talking about what we were going to create we started asking ourselves about what a Mario game would need to be. So we were experimenting with some things and we can up with the base idea, and that's what we eventually showed to Apple.
"In order for us to have the performance we wanted we needed some development support to ensure that the game would run the way we expected. Because Nintendo is always trying to do something unique we also wanted to try and do something different on the business side too. We really didn't want to do something in the free to play space, but in order to make sure we had the opportunity to do what we wanted, we had to talk to the people who are actually running the shop.
"Naturally, the people on the App Store initially told us that the free-to-play approach is a good one, but I've always had this image that Apple and Nintendo have very similar philosophies. As we started working together, I found that to be true and they became very welcoming of trying something new."
I en annan intervju gjord av Time Magazine, Miyamoto avslöjade att Nintendo arbetat med konceptet bakom Super Mario Run en längre tid:
"We had, during the Wii and 3DS days, experimented with ideas where Mario ran automatically and you would play by making Mario jump. And after doing some of those experiments we felt that would probably be the best way to bring Mario to iPhone, where you're just playing with one hand just controlling the jumps. And once we zeroed in on that it became relatively straightforward for us in terms of the game development."
