Katamari Creator Critical of Revolution
Thursday, April 20th, 2006Gamasutra has an article on Keita Takahashi's reaction to the Revolution controller. From the article: "Takahashi commented of the Revolution, which has drawn widespread praise for its underlying concepts from other Eastern and Western designers: 'I'm not really interested in it. I don't think a controller should have that much influence on the enjoyment of games.' He continued: 'I see what [Nintendo is] trying to do, but they're putting such emphasis on the controller; 'Woah, this controller lets you do this!' and I'm thinking - are you messing with us?'"
Majority reaction is that this is crazy talk.
He doesn't think controllers should influence the enjoyment of a game?!
He must not have played many... you know... games. Not even his own.
Maybe Takahashi is mad because the Revolution's new controller doesn't have any joysticks.
That means no Katamari Damacy-like games on the new uber-leet controller.
I'm sooo disappointed. (Not really.)