{"id":167316,"date":"2010-01-11T20:44:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T01:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/01\/11\/platinum-games-would-like-to-develop-a-madworld-sequel\/"},"modified":"2010-01-11T20:44:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T01:44:13","slug":"platinum-games-would-like-to-develop-a-madworld-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/167316","title":{"rendered":"Platinum Games Would Like to Develop a MadWorld Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><!--Begin feature--><\/p>\n<p><!-- for syndication --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/c24c5_media?id=3781542&amp;type=lg\" alt=\"MadWorld\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sega of America president Simon Jeffrey was very <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3169361\">upbeat<\/a> about the prospect of mature-rated games on Wii back in 2008. That was before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/do\/gameOverview?cId=3167746\">MadWorld<\/a> released last March, an event that made very little impact from a sales perspective by almost all indications, despite receiving almost universal praise from critics. Sega called early sales data &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3173612\">encouraging<\/a>,&#8221; a stance they later <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3175550\">backed off<\/a> of. Throughout this period, Sega <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3175013\">continued<\/a> to claim that they would create M-rated Wii games. Much more recently, on an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3?http:\/\/podcast.the1upnetwork.com\/flat\/1UPYours\/4G1U010110.mp3\" >episode<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/minisite?cId=3176640\">4 Guys 1UP Podcast<\/a>, Sega of America&#8217;s Constantine Hantzopoulo revealed that Sega isn&#8217;t, in fact, likely to make more mature Wii games.<\/p>\n<p>\nCut to Platinum Games&#8217; Shigenori Nishikawa, director on the first MadWorld. Speaking with <i>The Official Nintendo Magazine<\/i> UK, Nishikawa <a href=\"http:\/\/www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk\/article.php?id=14462\" >spoke<\/a> fondly of MadWorld and said Platinum would, in fact, like to work on a sequel. &#8220;I think MadWorld was very well received and was acknowledged for its innovative graphical style and gameplay,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;We would definitely be interested in making a sequel in the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nBut is it a good idea to take the risk of making another mature Wii game? Nishikawa didn&#8217;t see any problem with it, referring to the Wii as &#8220;a very well-balanced piece of hardware.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.1up.com\/do\/newsStory?cId=3177571\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sega of America president Simon Jeffrey was very upbeat about the prospect of mature-rated games on Wii back in 2008. That was before MadWorld released last March, an event that made very little impact from a sales perspective by almost all indications, despite receiving almost universal praise from critics. Sega called early sales data &#8220;encouraging,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}