Prince of Persia - Entwickler zeigt Interesse - Jedoch gibt es einen Haken

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GD: What you're talking about – satisfying the casual crowd, removing frustration, etc. - and the fact that it's cel-shaded, makes Prince of Persia seem perfect for the Wii, right? Why keep it just PS3/360?

BM: The reality is that from a technical standpoint, the Wii cannot do what we wanted the game to do. The AI of Elika was highly advanced and required a lot of processing power; the world size and dynamic loading, the draw distance, the number of polygons in the characters... If we had done a Wii version, it would have been toned down, probably linear, it wouldn't have been an open-world game, and so it would have been a very different experience. We didn't want to water it down that way. That said, I do agree very much that some of the people that probably would have most appreciated the design choices we made are Wii gamers. It would be really nice to be able to tap into that and give them that experience.

GD: So I guess you file that away for your next project...

BM: Yeah, a lesson to be learned moving forward. But keep in mind what the industry looked like when we started development on Prince of Persia. When we started, the Wii was [pegged] to be "everybody's second console," so if you look back at the documents and powerpoints of the business plan for the project, there were business cases for not doing the Wii version and for why the design philosophy of the Wii nation is suitable for the 360 and PS3, because in our minds everyone was going to have both. If they had a Wii in the same household, they were going to have a PS3 or 360 as well. And that obviously didn't happen with every Wii.

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