Miyamoto Discusses Remaking GC Games for Wii, New Zelda Controls

The folks from The Escapist Newsroom, IGN, and Gamasutra are gettin' Shiggy with it. Legendary designer Miyamoto is quoted in a recent article in the Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream talking about the upcoming Wii launch and how it will work with the eagerly anticipated Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

"In the Japanese Nintendo Dream magazine, Shigeru Miyamoto mentioned that the controls for Zelda Wii have been changed since E3. While it's unclear if the B button will still be optional for swinging the sword, Nintendo has moved to using a slashing motion with the Wii controller to handle the standard attacks in the game. Nintendo was concerned about players getting sore arms, but Miyamoto decided that, "Upon actually playing it, it's more interesting this way."

The possibility of upgraded Gamecube games being re-released for the Wii was also mentioned. "The machine is based on GC... We'll be upgrading the development tools, but GameCube code can be used for the most part as is. In that sense, I believe that it would be good to remake GameCube games for Wii, and that some titles would become better with the change to the Wii remote controller." He went on to suggest third party developers may look to do the same and the games would probably sell at a cheaper price point."

The real question for me: How well can you imitate Link's voice? I can do a pretty damn good Ocarina of Time impression. HYA! SKANK!

Game on!