SPOnG's Joe sat down with Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto last evening (well, day in the USA) to chew the fat over a variety of topics in a glorious roundtable event. You may have followed this live using SPOnG's Twitter feed. If not, here are some of the edited highlights in down'n'dirty form, prior to the full interview being blasted at you.

Let's start with a little flavour. The event, rather than being a cosy one-to-one with the man-genius of gaming, as a well-attended roundtable event, as Joe points out...

"Get the feeling its not VERY exclusive", however, being a SPOnG reporter to the core, "If Brian Crecente isn't going to get on the line like a sucker than neither am I. Good seat here I come!"

Into the show and tell, with New Super Mario Bros for the Wii, and "showing an ice level... penguin suite! can belly slide and shoot freezing ice balls. Enemies frozen in air stay there."

In terms of Galaxy 2, apparently Shiggy "Just had a lot of ideas so, we decided to make more." Interestingly, this was going to be an upgrade to Super Mario Galaxy, bringing it up to version 1.5, "but they decided to go all the way... because they had so many new ideas."

It's deep in development, so why aren't we seeing it this year? "because NSM Wii is coming out this year and they are holding Galaxy 2 it till next year to work on more."

Now things begin the usual turn of Miyamoto quirkiness, that being the thing with geniuses, "Miyamoto used Wii Fit a lot but saw room for improvement. He has dogs and cats and wanted to be able to weigh them with him."

Moving on.. moving on to Zelda. "Have 3 modes on show floor, just one for this. Apparently "Lots of people thought the multi-player in the last Zelda ds was to hard. So Ninty have changed it to make it better". Does that sound like, "made it easier"? We'll see.

In terms when we'll get to see the game in the real, non-E3 world? "Hope to show it next year.

"'Think of Zelda when playing archery and sword fight on Wii Sports'", are the words of advice.

We'll finish this little round-up with the following cracker regarding the great man's "thoughts on the Wii vitality sensor?"

Apparently, they actually experimented with "a love tester type controller at one point."

Lots more to come from Miyamoto-san so stay tuned.


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