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Posted on May 13th, 2007 - 476 Reads

Bungie answers Miyamoto

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Bungie's lead writer, Frank O'Connor has responded to Miyamoto's claim that he could have developed the Microsoft developer's pride and joy. During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Shigeru Miyamoto discussed his motivation behind his game designs, stating that he could potentially make games like Halo.

He said: "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."

At the end of an interview with Joystiq.com, O'Connor said: Yeah, well. I just want to go on the record and say that Bungie is hard at work on a side-scrolling platform game featuring some plumbers -- I'm not going to say what their ethnicity is, it's none of anyone's business -- but we took that as a gauntlet, a sort of glove slap, and we're going to respond in 2D scrolling style. That's all I'm saying."

It's good to see the industry has a good sense of humour.

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