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Iwata partially blames himself for Earthbound 64 cancellation

by rawmeatcowboy
18 August 2013
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This information comes from a just-translated 13-year-old interview with Itoi, Iwata and Miyamoto. Earthbound 64 is referred to as Mother 3 in this interview, seeing as how Mother 3 didn't hit the GBA until 2006!

Itoi: Did MOTHER 3 have a particularly difficult structure?

Iwata: That one was clearly my fault. A long time ago I once said, “Never say a programmer CAN’T do something.” Those words sort of take on a life of their own—dropping the word “can’t” can close the doors of possibility. Generally speaking, everything will work out eventually if you put in the effort and push onwards, but everything still operates within certain limitations. So if something is honestly impossible to do, you need to accept that. Oftentimes the case is that something is possible, but sacrifices will need to be made. Or that something is possible, but it cannot exist alongside some other thing. So that’s what I meant when I said “Don’t say you CAN’T be a programmer,” but “don’t say you CAN’T” is the only part that took off.

There was a time when the early designs for MOTHER 3 were really reckless. We were working with specifications that surpassed the system capabilities and memory capacity. We starting working on the game with the premise that we’d create something that’s never been done before.

Full interview here

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