Rockstar on why they’re not making GTA for Wii, DS instead

[wraggster]

In an interview with Nintendo Power, Rockstar Games cofounder Dan Houser explained why the company decided to to move the Grand Theft Auto series to the DS rather than the Wii. He states that “it didn’t really feel natural” to Rockstar and that “the DS felt like it had a lot of interesting challenges that would be totally different” than what the company has previously done.

Full question/answer below:

Q: It seems like a more natural progression for the series to move to Wii rather than the DS. Is there any reason why you didn’t take it there first?

A: It didn’t feel natural to us, I guess. It really was that the DS felt like it had a lot of interesting challenges that would be totally different from what we’d done in the past. The stylus and the chance to use minigames in that way was really interesting and exciting to us, and we thought we could integrate seamlessly between those two modes. And it would be the chance to make something really good on a handheld with our handheld-focused team. That was really why we went that way. We haven’t really done any concrete, major thinking about the Wii, one way or another. They’re sort of separate issues.

[kevenz]

"It didn’t feel natural"

What a crappy response from them.

[iofthestorm]

"It didn’t feel natural"

That's what she said.

[vicious1988]

Welcome...to Rockstar Games.

(lol, my Firefox recommends changing Rockstar to jockstrap)

[grossaffe]

title's kinda misleading. it doesn't say they won't make it for the wii, just that they are making it for the DS, which we already knew.

[pibs]

They should stop making GTA's period. Seriously GTA4 was over hyped. It was like they sacrificed gameplay for graphics. It was good but not great or worthy of 10/10 its blandness alone made me turn my back on the series after being a fan since the first installment on the psx.

For all you sandbox game fans I would say move on and keep an eye on games like inFamous and SaintsRow2

[enchanted]

EH..... I would think that driving a car using your "wii controller hands" would feel a lot more natural than dragging a pencil over a screen.. anyone else think so too? :-)

[vicious1988]

I agree pibs. I played it at my cousin's house on a 360, the controls handled like $#@!. Plus you couldn't see a damn thing on that little 13" TV it was hooked to because of the overzealous graphics, did I mention it was night in game.