10.20.2009

This is an excerpt from an article I was reading today. Miyamoto is a video game designer for Nintendo.

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Wired.com: Why isn’t Princess Peach a playable character in New Super Mario Bros. Wii?

Miyamoto: Well, originally I thought it would be nice to have Princess Peach in there as a playable character, but in fact, the Toad characters have a physique that’s a little bit closer to Mario and Luigi. And in particular if we had one character out of the four that wore a dress, we would have to have a special programming to handle how the skirt is handled in the gameplay (laughs).

And that’s the only reason that Princess Peach is not there. Of course, if we had Wario in there, we’d have to program him to fart.

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Reference: http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/10/shigeru-miyamoto/ Miyamoto: New Mario Tests Your Hard-Core Gaming Chops

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