In Vancouver, Miyamoto was meeting with the Canadian studio, an outfit called Next Level Games that has partnered with Nintendo on game development for about a decade, to check the progress on the Luigi's Mansion, which was then a primarily single-player game featuring Super Mario's brother, Luigi, tiptoeing through haunted locales, vacuuming ghosts. The Canadian team was dabbling with a multiplayer mode.
"Miyamoto-san actually challenged us to say that this multiplayer will only be in the game if people will constantly play it, similar to Mario Kart," Next Level gameplay engineer Brian Davis recalled in an interview with Kotaku.
Mario Kart is, of course, one of the most popular multiplayer video games of all time. Probably in the top five.
Next Level director Bryce Holliday remembered the same conversation, as this kind of thing doesn't seem like a line you'd forget. He said they'd just shown Miyamoto a tech demo of multiplayer. "That was his response: 'Put it in the game if people can play it longer than they play Mario Kart.'"
No pressure!Next Level Games
This is a quote from Next Level Games talking about when Miyamoto showed up and he mentioned about Multiplayer.
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