A portion of an NWR interview with Silicon Knights’ Dennis Dyack…
NWR: And, following up on the question about the Wii, since Silicon Knights is an independent developer, and you’re contracting with multiple publishers, currently Microsoft and Sega, do you think there is a point in the future where you might consider doing a project on the Wii? Or is the technology of the Wii such that you really couldn’t consider that possibility until Nintendo announces something like a Wii 2.0 that would have more advanced graphics capabilities?
Dyack: Well, to answer the first question, we’d consider working on the Wii today, we’d consider working on the Wii immediately, and is there a possibility of us working on the Wii, yeah, absolutely. I think that it depends on the type of game we’re trying to make, but I’d say the possibility is very high. I think from a perspective of “What’s going to happen?” it’s the timing and the project and how we feel about what we’re working on, does it fit? If it fits, we’ll do it without question. The Wii is clearly very successful and it’s a great console and it wouldn’t make any sense for us not to consider it. We would always consider it. And, you know, time will tell in the future, if and when we have something to announce on the Nintendo, you guys will be one of the first we come to.
I’d say things are looking pretty damn good for the Wii! Now…if we could only convince Mr. Dyack that the next Eternal Darkness needs to head to Wii…
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If Silicon Knights were to work with Nintendo, I would be ecstatic. They made such an amazing job of Eternal Darkness and Metal Gear Solid for Gamecube, that they would be dearly missed otherwise.
As a company, they are hailed as graphical wizards, and Eternal Darkness was a prime example of such.
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