This concern with breaking down borders in the games industry was echo-ed in another session earlier in the day, entitled: "Designer mash-up: Masaya Matsuura and Jenova Chen play PaRappa the Rapper and Flower" the two designers talked a little more about their desire to break down the gaming culture barriers between West and East. Which is also good news for the planet!Īs for the future of music-games, Matsuura hopes that we will see more games that use 'ethnic' and other music genres (name-dropping Peter Gabriel, here) suggesting that the current hegemony of western rock music in the games industry needs to be broken down a little.
Instead of designing yet more gaming peripherals, he foresees more convergence and "product sustainability" for both the manufacturers and the users. Indeed, the music-gaming maestro foresees a music-gaming "peripherals scrapheap mountain" in five years time, following the recent rush amongst games publishers to cash-in on the genre that Matsuura almost single-handedly invented. However, he doesn't have any current plans or ideas for motion-controlled music-games using Natal (unless he is playing his cards very close to his chest), telling us that "he doesn't want to be a launch creator " but would rather bide his time to see how the technology is taken up to begin with.
The legendary game designer also expressed a desire to work with Microsoft's Project Natal, Sony's motion-controlled PS3 Wand and Nintendo's heart-rate monitor peripheral – the three new pieces of hardware announced by the console manufacturers at this year's E3. "I would like to work with Google Android," Matsuura told TechRadar, "but I am waiting to see if it becomes popular." Though he refused to comment any further on plans for mobile music projects beyond the current (and awesome) 'ens ens' project with Yamaha.
We hope that it will see an international release, should it be successful when it finally releases. Most excitingly, for TechRadar, was the opportunity to get a short glimpse at NanaOn-Sha's latest project for mobile phones called 'ens-ens' – a music generating game that looked very much like it has the ability of turning a mobile phone into a fully-fledged musical instrument.įrustratingly though, this is a Japan-only project for now, sponsored by Yamaha.
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