Steven Spielberg is the director ofvery profitable movieand unblushing gamer nostalgia John Cash - in Ready Player One , which is mostly set in virtual realism . While doing an international crush tour for the movie , he also allegedly toldJapanese news bureau Kyodothat his favourite VR experience was play Mario … on , uh , a Playstation .
“ I played Mario and so on on the PlayStation , ” Spielberg told the newsworthiness authority , accord to a translation posted bythe Verge . “ The first time I tried it I did n’t want to take the goggles off . ”
This is mildly concerning , because Mario is Nintendo ’s exclusive cash cow . Other than colonnade games , roving apps , and a fistful ofodd one - offs or portslike Hotel Mario that were mostly unloose tenner ago , Mario is a Nintendo exclusive . It does not seem possible Spielberg played Mario on a Playstation , and it ’s rather improbable that he played Mario in VR on an official Nintendo console , given that theydon’t really make VR devicessince the catastrophic failure of the Virtual Boy in 1995 .
The Verge noted a act of explanations , including that he could have maybe thought the really cool Mario Kart VR arcade setup available inTokyo locations(which is a third - political party Bandai Namco system ) was a Playstation . They also noted that perhaps Spielberg bet another game that he call up was “ Mario . ” But Spielberg has a long history with TV game dating all the manner back to the E.T. for Atari debacle ; while his sake in gaming seems to have dropped off somewhatby the late 2000s , when he was making Boom Blox gamesfor the Wii , at that point he could not mayhap be incognizant of Mario or confuse it with another franchise .
I mean , Mario wears a lid with his initial on it .
So , bar the opening that something was lost in rendering , Occam ’s Razor seems to be that the Playstation end of the equation is where Spielberg ’s fuzzy computer storage amount in . Either Ready Player One ’s music director was kind of unclear on what found a Playstation , or he just kind of did n’t like . Either explanation is meet , becausethe movie also does n’t really give a fuck .
Update , March 24th , 2018 : An sharp reader noted in an e-mail that it is potential to use a Playstation VR headset with other console , though it’snot designed to do so . So that ’s technically potential , if a bit of a stretch .
[ Kyodoviathe Verge ]
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