Insomniac Games said a while back that it was "flattered" that the spherical worlds of Mario Galaxy were inspired by Ratchet and Clank. But Miyamoto says he's never heard of it.
Official Nintendo Magazine UK asked the father of Mario what he thought about Insomiac's comments in a recent interview, to be published in the next issue (Issue 25). But instead of acknowledging Insomniac's work, he asked: "Is it a PC game?"
Miyamoto said he was "surprised" by Insomniac's comment. "In terms of the spherical worlds and anti-gravity," he went on to explain, "we had the original idea as soon as we finished the development of Mario 64 and had been experimenting with it for many years, even on the N64."
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The concept of a spherical world was espoused by Pythagoras - that's 570 BC. Probably even earlier than that. And many philosophers and writers have recycled spherical world way, way earlier before Insomniac and Ratchet & Clank.
Insomniac was just being an arrogant, egoistical prick by claiming they "invented" the spherical world.
Whilst you would expect a gaming giant like Miyamoto to be aware of what is going on in the market, he is probably telling the truth. With so many different minds across the planet it's not unheard of for different people to come up with the same idea, story, music etc
either way. Galaxy -Good! Ratchett -Good! Meat -Good! Jam -Good! What's not to like?!
Miyamoto is pretending !!!!!!
Where did Insomniac say it was flattered that Mario Galaxy was inspired by Ratchet?
PS: I'm not saying they didn't, I am just interested to see the original source. ;)
They never said they invented the idea. Insomniac was asked a question to what games do they think were inspired by ideas from their series. They said that the idea that Mario Galaxy's spherical worlds may have been inspired by their games would be awesome.
They never once claimed that it was their idea or that mario even had the inspiration from them. It was a thought that never was definitive and was nowhere near being egotistical.
If you read the interview in which that statement came from you would see.