Nintendo Interview | Eidos Talks Tomb Raider Wii

Following the surprise announcement that the Tomb Raider 10th Anniversary game is coming to Nintendo's Wii, Eidos has gone on record to discuss details of the title. Below is a small excerpt of the chat:

IGN: So let's speak a little more broadly for a moment. Why bring Anniversary to Wii now? What prompted this decision?

Bill Gardner: A couple things. One, I wanted Wii product, as you know. Let's not kid - I saw the Wii coming quite awhile ago. [Nintendo] asked me to come up and I went up with the head of Crystal Dynamics and we played with a prototype before the Wii was introduced. We were both thrilled with what we saw and played and we felt that the company needed to make a commitment to going in that direction. The problem we had was getting the development kits in time to make it happen in a timely basis with the releases we had scheduled for this year. We couldn't do that. I mean, as you've probably heard, everybody was late in getting their dev kits. Well, that piled into us also - let's not kid each other. As a result, it was impossible for us to make a simultaneous release - we didn't have the expertise to do that because we were later on getting out kits, and so on and so forth.

The full interview can be read here.

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