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Troy’s full interview with Nintendo’s Miyamoto(0)

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto

Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto

On Saturday, the Merc ran an edited version of my interview with Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo’s chief game designer. Below you’ll find the full text of my interview, which took place at the E3 video game conference in early June.

(Note, although this is the raw interview transcript, a translator was in the room with Miyamoto and me. The answers were actually the translator’s English translations of what Miyamoto said.

Q: What was interesting to me … It really seems that Microsoft and Sony have started to zero in on what has distinguished the Wii and why the Wii has become such a popular game device, and that is the natural movements that you can do with the Wii remote. The question I have is what Nintendo thinks about this new interest from Sony and Microsoft in trying to duplicate and possibly improve upon what you’ve done with the Wii remote and Motion Plus?

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