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Back in 2007 Miyamoto made a huge joke about how the business side of Nintendo really wanted a New Super Mario Bros. 2 because of the sales of the first game that was released only one year earlier:

http://egm.1up.com/news/1up-interviews-shigeru-miyamoto

He fucking laughs while saying it!  Like, ha ha, they want it, but I won’t make it!

Anyway, I just discovered that information when a recent a Kotaku article referenced that statement (wasn’t looking at Kotaku, was looking at GameJournos.com, which was lambasting Kotaku):

http://kotaku.com/5861862/super-mario-bros-2-was-a-tiny-tiny-influence-on-super-mario-3d-land

I’m not sure if you’ve seen it before.  So I thought I’d send it your way.

It’s interesting since this is the second time I’ve seen Nintendo talk about the business side wanting a specific game made.  The other time was with Wii Play Motion.  One of the Nintendo developers admitted that the game was made because the business side asked for a sequel to Wii Play.  Of course, Nintendo was so lazy that they had other companies pitch their minigames to Nintendo, and then Nintendo selected the (allegedly) best ones for the final game.

Nintendo is a frustrating company.  What’s sad is that we can’t even call them greedy.  Hell, if they were greedy, we’d have tons of great games being made.  Instead, they are stupidly selfish.

Nintendo is becoming a vanity company. All vanity, all the time. Me, me, me. I have always wondered why you don’t hear Atari mentioned much from Nintendo. Atari did, after all, invent the video game market. Atari invented the console and how you could plug different games into one console. Atari invented the arcade market. Commentators have noticed this as well and speculated, “It is because Atari isn’t well known in Japan.” They wipe the question away with the matter of geography. But it is becoming increasingly clear that Nintendo likes to believe everything about video games was invented by them when anyone who lived during the 80s know this wasn’t the case.

I might have remembered that 1up interview. But I distinctly remember at that E3 of a journalist saying, right before he left (this was on video) about NSMB 2 and squealed “EVERYONE WANTS IT!”. Maybe it was this interview.