Nintendo looking to get “GoldenEye” back

As if the mere notion wasn’t every Wii owner’s dream, MTV’s Steve Totillo sat down with Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime to discuss the possibility and find out if all the hopes and dreams of gamers out there were realistic. Turns out, Reggie wants to see the game grace the Virtual Console as well, as he replied “Suffice it to say we would love to see [GoldenEye on Virtual Console], so we’re exploring all the rights issues.”

Of course, the rights issues are varied and abundant. With Microsoft now owning Rare, the company responsible for developing the title, as well as Activision owning the rights to all of the Bond games, Nintendo could find themselves writing a lot of checks. However, judging by the desire the title enjoys from its many fans (undoubtedly heralding their arrival through battle cries of “GREATEST CONSOLE FPS EVAR!”) and the big boost to the Virtual Console the game would no doubt cause, we could very well see Nintendo cutting those checks sooner than later.

During the same interview with MTV, Reggie went into some more depth over the Wii:

Following the company’s recent announcement that 600,000 Wii consoles and 454,000 copies of Zelda: Twilight Princess were sold in the first 8 days in North America, Fils-Aime also commented that Red Steel, Rayman Raving Rabbids and EA’s Madden for the Wii were other top sellers for the console, as was Atlus’ Trauma Center: Second Opinion.

Defending Nintendo’s upcoming first-party Wii line-up in North America, which has WarioWare: Smooth Moves, Wii Play and Mario Party 8 debuting by March 2007, Fils-Aime commented to MTV of any perceived post-launch ‘drought’: “I wasn’t here for the GameCube launch, but there was a time period when there were no titles. There wasn’t even titles you could or could not sink your teeth into. Wii Play and WarioWare are going to be hugely fun titles.” He also noted that Super Mario Galaxy will debut some time between March and Christmas 2007.

Talking to MTV, Fils-Aime also criticized some of the Wii software launch reviews, particularly for Ubisoft’s Red Steel: “I think a lot of the reviews have been overly critical. Does it take you a few minutes to get used to the control scheme? Yes. Once you get used to it does it play extremely well? Absolutely. I think a lot of those reviews are overly harsh.” Regarding online play, Fils-Aime was direct, if not very specific: “For the consumer who is saying, ‘Gosh, when is Nintendo going to get on board with online play?’ The answer is very early in 2007.”

Finally, the Nintendo president ended by talking about his plans for the Wii’s game line-up into the future: “The piece that I am more and more involved in is really looking longer-term and making sure the full range of games are being brought to the Americas. Making sure we have core gamer games like Metroid, like Galaxy. Making sure we have our types of market-extension games not only for Wii but for DS.”

Via Nintendofanboy | Gamasutra

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