Shigeru Miyamoto is a legend among legendary game designers no doubt, but when you hear something like this quote in a EW interview you just might have to do a double take. He said he could make Halo, but he chooses not to make games of that type.

“I could make Halo. It’s not that I couldn’t design that game. It’s just that I choose not to. One thing about my game design is that I never try to look for what people want and then try to make that game design. I always try to create new experiences that are fun to play.”

I’d be the first to say who the hell am I, but I can’t recall Miyamoto having ever conceptualized any game that was in first person or had anything to do with shooting anything. Of course Nintendo might have what has affectionately been called a Halo killer locked away in a vault, if so I’m sure we’d all like to see it. Marginalizing what Bungie has done for the first person shooter on the console saying that you could do it to is a little bit shocking coming from Miyamoto. Then again, the most interesting thing about this quote is the reference to his games being fun, as if Halo has no fun to be had. Interesting.

[via 1up]

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