Kanye West Reportedly Pitched His Game, Only One, To Miyamoto At E3
Kanye West pitched his game, Only One, to Shigeru Miyamoto at E3 2015.
Back in 2015, Kanye West revealed that he was making a game called Only One, which had players controlling his mother as she flew through heaven accompanied by a soundtrack composed by West himself. Only One was never seen after the initial reveal, however.
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Although we'll likely never see Only One come to fruition, ex-IGN reporter and Twitch lead community producer Zachary Ryan has shared a story of West pitching the game to legendary Nintendo director Shigeru Miyamoto at E3 2015, describing it as one of the funniest moments he had in games media (thanks, VGC).
According to Ryan, Miyamoto himself told him the story after someone mentioned West's at-the-time new track, Life of Pablo. Miyamoto reacted to hearing his name and then told Ryan that West had asked specifically to see Miyamoto at E3 2015 to show him Only One.
Ryan said,"He said that Kanye had shown up at the Nintendo booth unannounced and asked for an audience with Miyamoto specifically, right then and there. Thinking back to E3 2015, I remembered people saying that they'd seen Kanye on the show floor, so I guess it sorta made sense? He went on to say that Kanye showed him the prototype for a video game. In it, you played as Kanye's late mother flying to heaven, set to a soundtrack conducted by Kanye himself.
Ryan continued, "He was shaking his head as he described it, not like he thought it was a bad game. Bt more so in the way that he just sorta couldn't believe that Kanye West was pitching him a video game. He described, incredulously and in great detail what the game looked like and how it played."
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