Shigeru Miyamoto has confessed to Edge Magazine that he doesn’t believes in this day and age that he would get accepted at Nintendo with his current academic qualifications.

“Nintendo has become one of those companies that graduates from colleges and good universities really want to work for.”

“Because of that, the competition’s really become so fierce for positions. And that means that a lot of the recent recruits for Nintendo have tended to have the higher degree from the prestigious colleges and universities and whatnot.

“I often say to Mr Iwata: ‘If I was applying for a job here today, I, with my actual college degree, would probably not have been employed by Nintendo!’”

- Shigeru Miyamoto

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The release for the original Super Mario Kart is drawing ever-closer, with Nintendo stating the title will be available on the Virtual Console next week.

Pilotwings and Super Smash Bros from the Nintendo 64 are also cited by Nintendo as coming soon to the Wii Virtual Console. Both of these exceptional titles are expected to arrive just before Christmas time.

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Whilst the majority of next generation titles have embraced 3D, Shigeru Miyamoto still believes that two dimensions can still provide the player with equally as engaging game worlds.

I don’t think everything needs to be 3D, or that just because we’re seeing more 2D games now, that everything’s going to shift back to 2D. I think that what’s going on is that people are realizing the benefits of a 3D game, and at the same time, remembering what the benefits of 2D games were. When going to 2D, you need the courage to not be so attached to visual appearance of the games and to really pursue the gameplay experience.

- Shigeru Miyamoto

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Sonic will be gracing the Nintendo DS with a collection of his older critically acclaimed smash hits.

Australia’s Office of Film and Literature Classification has recently rated an unannounced DS Sonic game titled Sonic’s Classic Collection. Undoubtedly this collection will feature many of the hedgehogs previous exciting escapades from the Sega Megadrive.

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Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma recently spoke to online gaming publication, IGN, and informed them that the overall structure of the Zelda franchise is set to change with Zelda Wii.

“We’re making efforts regarding the total flow of the Zelda game. So far, the basic flow of the Zelda games is you’re exploring a field, you go to a dungeon, you conquer it and return to the field. We’re looking at altering that traditional flow. That’s all I can share, and I can’t say more until E3 next year.”

- Eiji Aonuma

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Nintendo’s Eiji Aonuma, the Legend of Zelda producer, recently sat down with the Official Nintendo Magazine and informed them that they’re hoping there will be a huge Zelda Wii related surprise at E3 2010.

“It is something we used to talk about with Mr Miyamoto, and he and I agree that if we are following the same structure again and again, we might not be able to give long time Zelda fans a fresh surprise.”

“So we have been trying something new in terms of the structure of the Wii version of the new Zelda game this time. I am really hopeful that people will be surprised with the changes we have implemented for this Wii version.”

“I hope that we can show you something at the E3 show next year and it is something we are hopeful will be surprising.”

-  Zelda producer Eiji Aonuma

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Whilst a plethora of highly anticipated franchises are making their way onto both the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, Nintendo are trying relentlessly to persuade certain publishers to provide Wii owners with similar offerings.

“I think for those games (i.e Modern Warfare 2, Assassins Creed etc), typically decisions are being made two years prior,” Fils-Aime says. “And so the decisions two years ago were that those types of games would not be effective on the platform. But we’ve shown that that’s just not the case. High-quality, effectively marketed against our installed base will sell, period — end of story.”

“Upgrading to HD is not the way we at Nintendo do things. The way we at Nintendo do things is, you know, when we will move to a new generation, it’s because there are some fundamental things the [current] console cannot do,what that says is that simply the addition of HD capability will not be the next step for us. There will be more to it. There will be additional capability. There will be additional elements, and, given that, it is far into the future.”

- Reggie Fils-Aime

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Nintendo has finally delivered and is offering free downloadable demo’s of select WiiWare titles on the Nintendo Wii via the Wii Shop Channel. To gain access to these demos you will need to do the following:

• At the start of this service, all demos are directly available from the main entry point of the Wii Shop Channel, the recommendation page.  Alternatively you simply need to visit the WiiWare section of the Wii Shop Channel and select “Search by Genre”.
• Next you choose the “Demo” genre to get a list of all demos currently available. Every demo can be downloaded to your Wii console or to an SD Card free of charge, so feel free to try as many as you like!
• Just pick the title of your choice, select “Download” and you will be playing before you know it!

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Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime has spoken openly to news network CNBC about his feelings on Modern Warfare 2’s phenomenal success.

You know, I was not (surprised about Modern Warfare 2’s success). We know that it’s a high-quality title. We know that it will do exceptionally well. Their challenge is going to be sustaining that. It was so big so fast, what happens next week and the week after? Versus, Mario is going to sell for high numbers every day now through, really, for the next couple of years”

- Reggie Fils-Aime

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Capcom’s Matt Dahlgren has told gaming press that he believes it will be possible to port Resident Evil 5 onto the Nintendo Wii after developers at Capcom Japan witnessed the miraculous work the team have done with Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles.

“At Resident Evil 5’s launch it was announced that a Wii version was not technically possible. But after some of the work that Cavia has done (with Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles), the producers of Resident Evil 5 over in Japan now think it is possible. Some of the light effects in the South America stage are pretty incredible. Whether it is going to come, I don’t know the answer to that question. But, it has been said that now at least it is possible.”

- Resident Evil: Darkside Chronicles Product Manager, Matt Dahlgren

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