Miyamoto talks about Wii Music's future, hints at sequel

@Foetoid
Game releases December 21st, 2012

@mkrajew
Well, that and give us a proper sequel to STARFOX64.

Miyamoto, stop all this WiiMUSIC insanity and just get crackin' on what's worked in the past: Putting dot eyes on inanimate objects and calling it a character, strange adventures in lands most people need pot/LSD to view, and/or making high profits without swindling people into buying a product just because there's a packaged-in WiiRemote controller.

WiiMUSIC is none of the above. >:\

@TraceurRyuk Prepping for LBP2
I was wondering when someone would post that link.

@benjamines

I get it isn't Guitar Hero. But what was it?

@ArQuesta Agreed. At the very least Guitar Hero and Rock Band (now especially with the 102 button guitar) will teach you intricate rhythm and syncopation, drum beats and keyboard. Wii Music was an abomination of coding. Obviously Miyamoto is just testing the limits of his power and influence at Nintendo. I could see if this game came out in the mid-90s...maybe. If it did sell 3 million copies, obviously that is finally proof that there is a Satan and Nintendo has a deal with him.

@Milf Biggenson

I think you're being optimistic if you think Guitar Hero, etc, will 'teach you rhythm' any more than Wii Music.

Just like DDR before them, or even just like Ouendan for that matter, these games don't really teach you anything - okay, perhaps some exceptions in the crazy advanced modes in the latest Rock Band that nobody bought, but even then I'm a bit doubtful.

I can play DDR quite well, still do, and it has 'triplets' say - that's a rhythm concept, and yes I get to know what it feels like [at least when used in cheesy dance music] but is that really something I couldn't have learnt in one half-hour lesson with any music teacher, rather than in many hundreds of hours of DDR?

In terms of music the point of these games is:

a) interacting with music is fun, even if it's just pressing a button at the right point.
b) [for the dance games] you get some exercise
c) [for the instrument games] you might get inspired to learn a musical instrument

I'm sure (a) and (c) could apply to Wii Music just as much as to Guitar Hero, though it might be more relevant to a different audience. I didn't play the original, but it sounded like it might be quite compelling for small children. Pretty good age to get people interested in playing a musical instrument, really. If the game's limited then that's actually a good thing, because if little Timmy wants to play different tunes, he has to get a real recorder and get lessons...

That said I kind of wonder if the first one sold three million based largely on the name - i.e. was the reaction of the 3 million people who bought it, pretty much as a bad on average as the reaction from hardcore gamers? Or did those 3 million, maybe families with young children, have fun with the game and look forward to getting the next? If the former, the next one might sell even worse.

@Death6six6 Shouldn't you be in class, young man?

@therandomizer

First one sold 3 million.

@A Sandwich DON'T YOU EVEN JOKE ABOUT THAT *crawls into corner and cries*

@dcfox That still didn't stop people from making numerous spoofs on Youtube.