Kid Icarus: Uprising development started on Wii and PC

[garyopa]

Revealed on a recent Iwata Asks...



Check out some Kid Icarus: Uprising prototype videos. The game development started on the Wii and PC.

In the latest "Iwata Asks" interview with Masahiro Sakurai, he confirmed that the development of his just launched 3DS game Kid Icarus: Uprising started on the Wii and PC.

Designer, Masahiro Sakurai, confirms this in an Iwata Asks interview, revealing that development of the game began before his company, Project Sora, even had a Nintendo 3DS development kit. “At first we didn’t have the Nintendo 3DS development kit, so we started making it on a PC,” Sakurai shares. “Oh, and for a while we were using a Wii to make it!”

Iwata also revealed that eventually making the switch to getting the game performing well on an actual 3DS was part of the reason that development took longer than expected.

Check out the prototype videos below. Of course, the environments are flat, but the Pit model looked a lot 'smoother'.




OFFICIAL SITE: http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interv.../kidicarus/0/7

NEWS SOURCE: http://www.siliconera.com/2012/03/29...on-pc-and-wii/

Our thanks to 'Gauss' for this news item!

[Captain N1]

Kid Icarus Uprising would make a great wii game. its the kind of game that fits the wii-mote style kinda like sin and punishment

[LKJHGFDSA]

Oh, so it was just part of the development process that they started on PC & Wii.
I thought this article was saying the game was originally intended to be a Wii game. Poorly worded.