Wired’s Game|Life carries confirmation that the user caricature feature shown at Nintendo’s pre-E3 press briefing will be included in hardware level. This comes through an interview with Animal Crossing producer Katsuya Eguchi at E3 where he stated that users will be able to store profiles, letting them create caricatures of themselves, their families, and others (if they wish to). This feature will also be available in other games.
Katsuya Eguchi: Also as you saw in the media briefing, you saw Iwata, Miyamoto, and Reggie playing tennis. we are looking to implement a similar kind of editing feature into the hardware that will allow users to create caricatures of themselves, members of the family, people they would potentially play with. and so when they go to play tennis, those would be the faces in the game. a more sophisticated graphic look wouldn’t match well with the caricatures, but a simpler one does.Wired News: So the feature would be in the hardware and then applied to, potentially, any game…
Katsuya Eguchi: Yes. The caricatures will exist in the hardware, as data, as one of several profiles that you could save in the Wii. And if you insert compatible software into the Wii, it will pull up the images that you chose.
Eguchi also confirmed that they’ll be including an editing tool that will allow players to create images as well as allow users to select one of several included images.
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