Xenoblade Developer Wants To Push The Limits of Wii U

By Nick Baumfeld
Posted on July 12, 2011 AT 08:11pm

Monolith Software – the developer behind Wii RPG Xenoblade – is not only looking forward to the Wii U, but reallys want to show what the system can do.

In an interview conducted on the company’s Japanese website, Monolith CEO Hirohide Sugirua said that the company had been doing a lot of research into HD development, and that their games for the Wii U will show the result of that.

As well, Monolith staff member Michihiko Inaba said that with Monolith’s first HD title, he hopes the company will be able to show that Japanese game developers can still compete with Western companies when developing HD games.

Bio: Nick Baumfeld has been involved in the video game industry for a good 12 years. He has seen the industry from all view points and has a background in websites, website integration and social media. Nick pioneered the online video game rental business back in the day, moved forward into online video game trading and then moved viral with the well received Video Games Application on Facebook. Today, he has joined up with EGM founder Steve Harris to create something truly unique and special; EGMNOW, a community dedicated to all manner of gamers.

Gaming MO: Nick is a first person shooter type of gamer and enjoys heated bouts of Halo with friends and family (even while being schooled by his children).

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