Wii Virtua Tennis?
So it turns out that the new issue of Official Nintendo Magazine has an interview with Sumo Digital about its SEGA tennis title, and it turns out that SEGA Superstars Tennis actually started as a Wii version of Virtua Tennis 3.
"We do some prototyping on a potential Wii version of Virtua Tennis 3 and whilst we're doing that we make all the characters have big heads," said Steve Lycett, Executive Producer of the project. "SEGA pay us a visit and on seeing this suggest we pop in Sonic instead of a big-headed Federer. As such, potential character defamation cases are avoided and the seeds of SEGA Superstar Tennis are born."
Hm. Was this another case of the developer skewing younger for the Wii to promote their franchise characters, or could the Wii just not handle Virtua Tennis 3? It's a shame, because I bet there's a lot of people who would've enjoyed playing a serious tennis game on the Wii, and the motion controls would've made up for any graphical downgrades. Well, maybe Virtua Tennis Wii is still on the way? I mean, they were halfway there before they substituted Roger Federer with Sonic The Hedghog. Change him back! Change him back!
Virtua Tennis Coming To Nintendo Wii? [cubed3]
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Posted to Video Games on 2 June 2008
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