Iwata asks about the many Wii Wheels of Nintendo

by Alexander Sliwinski { Apr 4th 2008 at 9:30PM }

In a new edition of the contrived Iwata Asks, Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and product development guy, Kenichiro Ashida, sit down with president Satoru Iwata to talk about the Wii Wheel shipping with Mario Kart Wii.

Ashida regales that in early 2007 the product development team got the first build of Mario Kart Wii and started messing around with developing a steering wheel. Some 30 prototypes laters the team had a design that was about the size of a real go-kart steering wheel and added a B button to the underside of the wheel for a child's fingers to reach. Mario Kart Wii drives into stores April 27... coincidentally, two days before that other driving game.

Tags: ashida, iwata, mario-kart, mario-kart-wii, miyamoto, nintendo, wii-wheel

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fernando Rocker @ Apr 4th 2008 9:34PM

I'm far more hyped for Mario Kart than SSBB or GTAIV.

=p

jcd @ Apr 4th 2008 10:59PM

no surprise there

Babel @ Apr 5th 2008 1:10PM

Gotta agree with you there, Fernando. Although all three games are undeniably made of awesome - got all three on pre-order! :D

A Pissed-off English Gamer @ Apr 4th 2008 9:39PM

Same here. I do love a bit of the ol' Kart.

Mills and Boom @ Apr 4th 2008 9:47PM

Kart in a few weeks, Brawl on the 6th o' June. Summer is party game season.

Can't wait for either them 2 games. Hoping Kart controls as well as Excite Truck.

Fernando Rocker @ Apr 4th 2008 9:57PM

I'm kinda expert in Mario Kart... and I will definitely going to try and master motion controls... I want the Wii Wheel icon next to my profile. =)

By the way... interesting article... a Super Mario Galaxy character will be on Mario Kart Wii.

=p

http://wii.ign.com/articles/864/864572p1.html

MagiKarp @ Apr 4th 2008 10:16PM

Mario Galaxy character in Mario Kart? I bet it's Mario!

/jk (I had to do it)

Kyattsuai @ Apr 4th 2008 10:26PM

I missed that first time through. Are there any new characters in Galaxy other than Rosalina? I doubt they'll make those star things drive a kart.

mr mobius @ Apr 5th 2008 8:01AM

It's pretty obvious that Rosalina/Rosetta will be the new character.

I wonder will there be a Galaxy track, or could the Rainbow Road (always in a Mario Kart so its expected to have a RR) be the Galaxy track?

After the amount of effort they put into SSBB, there should be an awful load of options.

theturtle363 @ Apr 4th 2008 9:57PM

that one guy in the picture looks terrified of Miyamoto

mmxzero @ Apr 5th 2008 12:54AM

(laughs)

playwhutyalike @ Apr 4th 2008 9:59PM

As far as purchases go, I'll probably get Kart after I get GTAIV. I've got so many games yet to beat. It never ends does it?

Jay @ Apr 5th 2008 12:55AM

with the giant hype machine that is brawl....mario kart just snuck up on me.

Between the 2....I won't be going outside all summer.

ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Apr 5th 2008 5:39AM

It's just the normal process of any design, whether it be character, object, scenery or industrial design.

Thumbnail loads, prototype quite a few, end up with one: the first product is always the most expensive, but manufacturing a lot of copies is extremely cheap.