Wales Interactive on considering 3DS support, appreciating Nintendo fans

A portion of a Nintendo Insider interview with Wales Interactive...

NI: Unity has recently announced support for New Nintendo 3DS and New Nintendo 3DS XL. Having found success on Wii U, would you be open to exploring that as another potential platform to support?

WI: Definitely. Actually, weirdly enough when we were out in Cologne we were talking to some of the developers of that. It is something that we want to actually try, because we’ve created a handheld version of Gravity Badgers for PlayStation Vita a while back which kind of did quite well. We know the 3DS is such a massive market. We’ve been to Japan a few times now as well, and we couldn’t believe people were playing it all the time. It will be something we definitely want to try out. For us especially, we like to develop and it would be a nice one for us to do.

NI: We’ve had Gravity Badgers, Master Reboot and now Soul Axiom. Do you feel Nintendo’s audience has been receptive to your games on the eShop?

WI: They have been brilliant, actually. We have published on every single console, Steam and PC, and, by far, Nintendo fans have been the best. We’ve had some great feedback, great conversations, and even with Twitter when we check it’s just been amazing. As developers you try not to read too much, because you’ll either depress yourself or be really happy depending on what hour you read Twitter! [laughs]

NI: Has that encouraged you to continue supporting Nintendo’s platforms moving forward?

WI: It’s one thing that we always plan for now. As a smaller developer especially, we have to pick and choose our battles. We can’t do anything physically, and time-wise we don’t have the resources. What has been solidified from the games we’ve released already and the reception we’ve had from the Soul Axiom demo which came out… four months ago. Jesus, time’s flying! The reception has been great, we want to support it and Nintendo has been great itself in supporting us. We can actually talk to people which is nice, face-to-face conversations or actually sending emails and getting a reply within a good amount of time! [laughs]