Our fellow-members from overgame.com had the occasion to carry out an interview with one of the persons in charge forUbisoft in load of the project Red Steel on Nintendo Wii, which was presented at the time of E3 2006 at the United States. Novel Campos Oriola, the originator of Red Steel, thus gives some interesting details concerning its title. Here some extracts:
In can the future, one imagine more complex methods of control for the Wii plays?
Novel Campos Oriola (Ubisoft): If one puts a play Playstation of first generation vis-a-vis at a play Playstation of last generation, visually, both do not have anything to see. In the same way that, on Playstation or Xbox, of new graphic bookshops arrive progressively with the lifespan of the console, one can imagine that Wii will accomodate, in the long term, of the methods of recognition of movements increasingly sophisticated. With my opinion, according to progress that our team made into three or four months, the detection of movements even more intuitive and will be pushed in one six months/one year. Currently, it goes well but there is still full with small failures. You feel that you are obliged to make the movement which will be recognized. But it is in good way, and I have really confidence because it is a technology which is nevertheless rather complex to take in hand and to control. One is yet only at the beginning.
The rumours spoke about a power comparable with that of Xbox...
I do not have the right to speak in details of what Wii can do graphically. What one can say, it is that on the sum of all that it can do, Wii is more powerful than Xbox. But there are things which Xbox can make and which Wii cannot make.
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There, the universe is much darker.
We will try to be classified ' For adolescents' [ in the United States ], compared to all the problems which the country currently connait with the video game. It is for that that there will be no blood or dismemberments. They are marketing choices for the USA. But on the level of the universe and the scenario, yes, that will be something of rather dark.
You can read the interview in its entirety here.