As if I didn't already have to listen to my father go on about "these goddamn kids today who don't want to learn real guitar 'cause of Guitar Hero," now we have Shigeru Miyamoto himself talking about how awesome the world would be if music education started with Wii Music.
Iwata and Miyamoto discussed Wii Music on "Creator's Voice," a developer session hosted on Nintendo's web site.
Iwata: Well, there, with Wii Music, there's a strong possibility of raising people's basic level of music education.
Miyamoto: Yes. Thus, from now, I've even thought it would it would be great if kindergartens or elementary schools got Wii Music and began kid's music education with that...
My first school-related music experience involved garbage bags stretched over tin cans and held in place with rubber bands. How can we even think of replacing real instruments with such false, plastic alternatives?
Really, I'm kind of curious about Wii Music. Everyone scorned it at E3 2008, but everyone laughed at Wii Fit, too. Now everyone I know, and not just my grandmother, wants Wii Fit. We're talking about men who rock the Halo.
Miyamoto said something else that caught my paltry attention:
"I haven't really felt the happiness from making other games that I've had felt making Wii Music... I wasn't this excited while making Super Mario Bros."
Call me Looney Tunes, but it seems to me that only good things can come from a project that Miyamoto loved working on.
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