Zeus
08-20-2008, 01:55 PM
Executive producer has revealed that the next Harry Potter game has been made for the Wii first and the other consoles second. Obviously they looked to what they deem to be the most 'popular' system in the market for this type of genre and went with the Wii as the lead platform...
Making Wii the lead platform was the first decision that “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” executive producer Jonathan Bunney made when approaching the latest Wizard game.
“We made that decision from day one,” he told me last week. “We did, I think, a good job with the Wii last year, but we’re doing a great job this year. Because this is where the casual audience is, the mass audience is here. It’s a great control system, but you’ve got to learn to use it.”
EA wants as many people as possible playing their “Harry Potter” games and Bunney saw the traditional control scheme as an obstacle for many users.
“I think the biggest learning we had this year is that you port your controls up as opposed to down,” he said. Bunney explained how EA had to reverse their traditional thinking. One of the biggest complaints lodged against multi-platform game on Wii is a sense motion controls were tacked on.
News Source: <A href="http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/20/harry-potter-leads-on-wii/" target="_blank">MTV</a>
Making Wii the lead platform was the first decision that “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” executive producer Jonathan Bunney made when approaching the latest Wizard game.
“We made that decision from day one,” he told me last week. “We did, I think, a good job with the Wii last year, but we’re doing a great job this year. Because this is where the casual audience is, the mass audience is here. It’s a great control system, but you’ve got to learn to use it.”
EA wants as many people as possible playing their “Harry Potter” games and Bunney saw the traditional control scheme as an obstacle for many users.
“I think the biggest learning we had this year is that you port your controls up as opposed to down,” he said. Bunney explained how EA had to reverse their traditional thinking. One of the biggest complaints lodged against multi-platform game on Wii is a sense motion controls were tacked on.
News Source: <A href="http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/20/harry-potter-leads-on-wii/" target="_blank">MTV</a>