Are any of the original Metroid developers helping Retro Studios with Metroid Prime?
We were thinking of showing Metroid Prime as a playable game here at E3 but we felt that it wasn’t the right opportunity for us to show it. But work is progressing and things are moving along. As Producer I am overseeing it and working with the developers and so you don’t need to worry about anything, the game is going well. What is it you ask the hardware designers for at Nintendo in order to make the games that you want to make? Because hardware is so specialised I can’t get in there and tell them how to make how to make the hardware. What is really important for me, especially with the new hardware systems is that because we use the systems that they’ve created and we know the capabilities of each system – things like the speed of the processor, the speed of the graphics chip – we can see where these speeds fall, causing the overall output of the hardware to drop causing a limitation which we have to work around when we program. So, when we’re creating a new hardware it’s important
