Miyamoto denies being inspired by Ratchet & Clank
- Posted December 14th, 2007 at 05:09 EDT by Mike Harradence
- 35 Comments
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto has shot down earlier reports that the spherical elements in his latest Wii game, Super Mario Galaxy, were inspired by Insomniac’s title Ratchet and Clank, claiming he has “never seen” the game before.
In a recent interview with the Official Nintendo Magazine UK, the Nintendo General Manager admitted he was “surprised” to hear of Insomniac’s claims, who previously said that the studio was “flattered” upon seeing the spherical worlds depicted in Galaxy.
However, Miyamoto insists this is not the case: “In terms of the spherical worlds and anti-gravity," he said, "we had the original idea as soon as we finished the development of Mario 64 and had been experimenting with it for many years, even on the N64."
"It's not an idea we got from anywhere else," insisted Miyamoto, before stating he didn’t even know which console the game was released on.
"I'm sorry but I have to admit that I've never seen the game in question. Is it a PC game?”
Source: CVG
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princevegeta1980
- 5:12am GMT - December 14th, 2007
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sorry folk's, 1st again
look's like nintendo are running out of ideas, wasn't it them that crticized ps3 for having un-original and only violant games, lol! they should try making other IP's instead of continuing mario this, mario that!
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Richmond |
richmond-reaperx- 5:36am GMT - December 14th, 2007
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I don't think he's lying when he says he didn't take the idea from Ratchet and Clank, but saying he's "never heard of it" is pretty moronic. The only explanations I can think of, if he's being genuine, are 1) Nintendo paid him off to try and lower the brand name of R&C (not sure why they'd do that, but whatever), or 2) He genuinely hasn't heard of it, because he doesn't keep up-to-date with competing game franchises, in which case, he's not very business-savvy. Either way, he makes himself look stupid by saying he's never heard of a franchise that's sold over 100,000,000 units since its' inception.
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Lozt_again |
Lozt_again- 5:55am GMT - December 14th, 2007
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SO, he says the Playstation only has violent games, yet knows nothing of it's catalogue?
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cashville
- 6:17am GMT - December 14th, 2007
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he talking about i never seen the game tell if im lying but a typical 35-45 year old man wouldn't play mario galaxy...nintendo is a gimmick ......HERES WHAT PS3 have to say" ANYTHING YOU CAN DO I CAN DO BETTER"..lol......i cant believe moralized people are buying this type of crap...nintendo your ruining NEXT GEN....MICROSOFT YOU S@K@HARDWARE.......NEXT GEN BEGIN WHEN PS3 came out.......
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PS3-The Ultimate Machine
- 7:20am GMT - December 14th, 2007
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At first i thought Ninty didn't get the idea from R&C,but after this PATHETIC reply from Miyamoto,i'm sure how "innovative" the top honchos at Nintendo are.
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kcgreatfox |
El_Senor- 9:11am GMT - December 14th, 2007
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Everyone in the gaming industry should have heard of Ratchet & Clank... No wonder nintendo made such and under-powered system! They werent paying attention to what their competition was doing! What a loser...
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Paranoimia |
Paranoimia- 9:56am GMT - December 14th, 2007
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"We may not have used it, but we had the original idea years before anyone else... honest, guv!"
Yeah, right Shigsy! Pull the other one... it's got bells on.
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Organic_Shadow |
OrganicShadow- 10:08am GMT - December 14th, 2007
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Yeah this only further strengthens my opinion that Nintendo doesn't understand the average gamer and doesn't even understand it's competition. It's going to, once again, bite them in the ascii eventually.
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BD_BLACKAZZ |
BD_BLACKK- 11:14am GMT - December 14th, 2007
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he had the idea many years ago and before everybody else but didn't use it at all.....What kind of since does that make ??
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Alpha2
- 12:02pm GMT - December 14th, 2007
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Lets see how fast Nintendo gets a free pass on this one when every time Sony does something even remotely similar to someone elses idea they get called liars and thieves. my god that's such a BS comment "Uuuhh I dont know that game! is it a PC game?" yeah right!
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pepsivscoke
- 12:26pm GMT - December 14th, 2007
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My favorite part is the very end...."is it a PC game". Whatever! That statement leads me to believe he does know about it. How many PC games are like a Mario platformer??? LamE!!
I'm gonna believe that there wasnt inspiration from R&C but I think his answer was lame!
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InfernoReaper |
GrimDarkling- 2:27pm GMT - December 14th, 2007
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I smell something. And it's not the toaster.
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rob91883 |
rockfunployee- 2:53pm GMT - December 14th, 2007
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I find it hard to believe that he has not heard of Ratchet and Clank before, but I will give him the benefit of a doubt. He has not been shy in the past when it comes too praising other games, for example Samba de Amigo. I will say this on his defense, the Mario 128 Tech demo for the game cube was already demonstrating a spherical world, and it re-formed into different shapes.
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Gen.Penguin
- 3:24pm GMT - December 14th, 2007
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how could he not know. maybe he lives under a rock and does nothing but smoke weed and plays only nintendo products.
other than that i can't believe he wouldn't know who they are being someone in the industry.
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Mecha_Daddy |
mecha_daddy- 3:45pm GMT - December 14th, 2007
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Just like they had the idea for Home many years ago.
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Bino4169
- 4:56pm GMT - December 14th, 2007
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Please, whoever thinks that the mastermind behind all that is Video Games would take an idea from someone else without giving that person/people credit is insane, Miyamoto is the Video Game Father since he gave birth to this era we live in back in the day when it was going straight nowhere but death, and i would doubt that he doesn't know what this franchise is due to the fact that it's been around for a while and it's one of PlayStation's biggest franchises
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zbamf
- 7:27pm GMT - December 14th, 2007
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I think he's plainly made it obviuos he's talking bull by saying he's never heard of Ratchet & Clank and made it even more so when he says "is it a PC game?" Before his reply when he was informed of the claims by Insomniac, surely then he was told about R&C and what platform it was on?
Its typical Nintendo to say that they have been working on these ideas for many years when really thats bull too.
What I hate about Nintendo is that you never hear about any Nintendo employee playing on other systems. With Sony and Microsoft and exclusive developers to these 2, you hear of them talk about playing other games on other system but a Nintendo employeee will never say, even though one site (I think IGN) has a picture of Miyamoto playing the EyeToy at a games convension.
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sleepyzombie
- 2:32am GMT - December 15th, 2007
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Of course they've been experimenting with it since Mario 64. That's why they waited to implement it after R&C. DUH!
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galaxyman14 |
Apollo15- 3:51pm GMT - December 15th, 2007
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BULLS***. Miyamoto is an overrated fraud and i'm glad he's finally being called out instead of having his d*** sucked by the gaming media. So he created Mario. Whoop-dee-fuc****-doo. He ran Mario into the ground by the 90s. Anything else?
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