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Zelda Team Being Pressured To Equal Monster Hunter Tri Graphics
Monster Hunter Tri is a good-looking Wii game. Very good. It turns out that more than fans of the series have taken notice, as Nintendo’s president Satoru Iwata recently gave Capcom a pat on the back while giving the Zelda development team a kick in the rear. Iwata wants the next Zelda game to look as good as Monster Hunter Tri.
"I can tell Nintendo's staff has really been galvanized by you. I can tell they feel like you did what they hadn't yet," Iwata told Monster Hunter Tri producer Ryozo Tsujimoto and game director Kaname Fujioka. "Looking at the graphics objectively, I feel like the game's visuals are one of the representative examples of what can ultimately be done with Wii. I think it has placed the Zelda team under a considerable amount of pressure."
Fujioka said that creating breath-taking visuals was a goal from the beginning. He said that the Monster Hunter series is known for having great visuals, and the development team wished to prove fans that doubted the power of the Wii wrong. “We thought that unless we got those types of [fans] to think, 'Oh, it's totally all right,' we would have failed," said Fujioka.
I’ve seen Monster Hunter Tri being played around the office, and I’m being honest when I say I mistook it for a PS3 or 360 game.
Source: 1up
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