NOM Gets Chatty

[Comments]

<strong>NOM Gets Chatty</strong> <img src="/images/Gamecube.jpg" alt="Gamecube" width="8" height="8">
<font size="1">[ Lee_yoshi - February 15 2005 - 5:41 PM ]</font>

<P><IMG style="WIDTH: 192px; HEIGHT: 235px" height=249 alt="NOM UK" hspace=2 src="/uploads/news_images/nom150_cover.jpg" width=229 align=left vspace=1 border=1></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">This months Nintendo Official Magazine includes a conversation with Yuji Naka. You may have heard of him, he's the president (of Sonic Team!).</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Creator and genius with works including <EM>NiGHTs</EM>, <EM>Samba De Amigo</EM>, oh, and of course <EM>Phantasy Star Online</EM>, was at hand to talk about his latest gaming incarnation - <EM>Project Rub</EM> for Nintendo DS. NOM of course was more then happy to change the subject half-way through though for discussions on other subjects </FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Included were talks on Sonic DS, a new Sonic Gamecube title, the possibility of Mario and Sonic in the same game, the posibilities of a new <EM>NiGHTs</EM> game, and a question about <EM>Phantasy Star Online</EM>!</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>Nintendo Official Magazine UK:</STRONG></FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"<EM>Phantasy Star Online</EM> is a major title in online games. With the first Dreamcast game, Sonic Team embraced the possibilities of online play. What's happening with the <EM>PSO</EM> series now?"</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>Yuji Naka:</STRONG></FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">"I want to keep the <EM>Phantasy Star Online</EM> series going. We've got <EM>Blue Burst</EM> coming out on another format later this year. There's nothing in the pipeline yet, but there will be more of <EM>PSO</EM> in the future."</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">What does this all mean??? Well for starters, it most likely means no more <EM>PSO</EM> for current generation consoles, although if Yuji Naka has his way, <EM>PSO</EM> will continue to live on in the form of Next Generation console, with some hope and glory!</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Secondly, he has stated that <EM>Blue Burst</EM> is coming out in the near future (On another format - as we all know as PC). Now, he knows he's talking to a UK magazine, so does this mean <EM>Blue Burst</EM> is coming to Europe afterall sometime in the "Near Future"??? ^_^</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">What was strange though is that during the question he mentioned nothing of <EM>Phantasy Star Universe</EM>, or the possibilities of a DS porting. Its not going to stop us from speculating though Roll on E3!</FONT></P><P><FONT face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">For the full interview, go and grab your copy of this months Nintendo Official Magazine UK - coincidently it being an anniversary 150th issue where they also ran down the top 150 releases of all time on Nintendo consoles (As voted by the readers) where <EM>Phantasy Star Online, Episodes I &amp; II</EM> placed 124th! Well, its not bad i suppose, better then 125th! HAHA!</FONT></P>