Shigeru Miyamoto has said that Nintendogs + Cats was born out of a desire to see cats and dogs get along together as they had done in the 1963 Disney film The Incredible Journey.
Miyamoto who owns both a dog and a cat said "When I see my two pets getting along so well, there are all sorts of pretty pictures. For example, my dog will be padding along with the cat padding along behind it, or their silhouettes will be lined up before the evening sun. It made me think of The Incredible Journey, a Disney film I had seen as a child. It's about two dogs and a cat who go on a journey to return to their owners after their owners leave on a trip and entrust them to a friend. It was quite moving.
"I thought how pleasing it would be if you could see a dog and cat getting along well in a game."
"Making a game called Nintencats just didn't seem right for Nintendo, but people all over the world love cats, so I wanted to put cats in a game somehow. But when I actually got a cat, I realised there just aren't as many things to do with a cat as there are with a dog, that we may use in our entertainment. I concluded that showing how dogs and cats interact would be just right."
Nintendogs + Cats is a Nintendo 3DS launch game. Are you looking forward to it?
"Getting along"? So there won't be any comedy violence when kitteh has had enough of doggeh sniffing its particulars?
Bah. That's what I was looking forward to.
Interesting...
The Incredible journey?
Dosn't he mean Homeward Bound?
when you said can you guess which one? i thought 101 dalmations? lol again thanks for the sneaky snippits
Homeward bound was a remake of the 1963 film The Incredible Journey, Iwata Asks even states so.
Ok, chill. I didn't read the interview.I'd just thought I'd ask
I really did like the incredible journey,I see where they come from.
I was thinking the lion king...lions are cats, right?
And I was thinking of "Oliver and Company" thats the best Disney film with Dogs and Cats...... even though thats the only one ive ever seen...
I was not thinking of any film maybe a Little of the incredible journey.