{"id":5896,"date":"2013-07-05T10:50:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T17:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/?p=5896"},"modified":"2013-07-13T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-13T21:22:09","slug":"shigeru-miyamoto-speaks-on-why-wii-u-games-are-taking-longer-to-develop-than-for-their-past-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/2013\/07\/05\/shigeru-miyamoto-speaks-on-why-wii-u-games-are-taking-longer-to-develop-than-for-their-past-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"Shigeru Miyamoto speaks on why Wii U games are taking longer to develop than for their past consoles."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Nintendo&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/en\/stock\/meeting\/130627qa\/index.html\" title=\"73rd Annual General Meeting of Shareholders\">73rd Annual General Meeting of Shareholders<\/a>, Shigeru Miyamoto said, &#8220;When it comes to the scale of software development, Wii U with HD graphics requires about twice the human resources than before. Please allow me to explain that we may have underestimated the scale of this change and, as a result, the overall software development took more time than originally anticipated just as we tried to polish the software at the completion phase of development.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These comments by Miyamoto reflect both the overall amount of time that&#8217;s needed for Wii U game development, as well as well as Pikmin 3 in particular.  Where other video game companies have been developing HD games for more than half a decade, Nintendo is just beginning.  It&#8217;s in Paul Gale Network&#8217;s opinion that with a combination of expanded internal studios, building up its smaller, external resources, and further enhancing its bonds with 3rd parties, that Wii U will exceed.  It&#8217;s what HAS to happen, in fact.<\/p>\n<p>Wii U had a great first 2 months, a poor next 5, and a hopeful, great upcoming 5.  It&#8217;s a powerful console with clean, modern development architecture, a substantial 1gb of RAM dedicated to its GPU (which is plenty more than Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3&#8230;even if a lot less than Xbox One and PlayStation 4), and is the only platform that can deliver two screen&#8217;d gameplay in quite the ways it can.  Here&#8217;s hoping that Nintendo can catch up quick so that Wii U will still have a strong place in the next-gen console war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Nintendo&#8217;s 73rd Annual General Meeting of Shareholders, Shigeru Miyamoto said, &#8220;When it comes to the scale of software development, Wii U with HD graphics requires about twice the human resources than before. Please allow me to explain that we may have underestimated the scale of this change and, as a result, the overall software [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896\/revisions\/5898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/paulgalenetwork.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}