Naughty Dog No Motion Controlled Game, Praises The Wii

Naughty Dog are behind some the Sony Playstation’s biggest IPs, including Crash Bandicoot, Jak & Daxter and Uncharted. But that doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate the Nintendo Wii. When asked if they would ever make a motion controlled game, Naughty Dog’s co-president Evan Wells said that it won’t happen any time in the near future, but he does see the appeal behind such games…

“I think right for the genre that we’re in? We really don’t have any interest in using the motion control to do a third-person action game. If we were going to make a motion controller game, I think we’d want to tackle it from the bottom up and make sure that we were designing the game around the motion control, the way the best Wii games are designed. I’m not a Wii hater at all, in fact, it’s probably one of my most played consoles in the house. I have a 3-year old son which might account for some of that [laughs], but I think Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort are some of the best experiences of this generation, honestly. They’re immensely playable and competitive, and just great fun with a group of people in the same room. Yeah, I think the PlayStation audience is totally for it, in fact, I bet you there are lot of closet Wii owners in the PlayStation community. If there is some really good software for that motion controller, I think it can be a big, big success.”

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