Shigeru Miyamoto has been doing the rounds participating in numerous different interviews to help promote Nintendo’s various games revealed at the E3 event last week, including the next in the ‘Wii’ line-up of titles ‘Wii Music’.

Kotaku has picked up on a comment made by Shigeru Miyamoto-san about the upcoming musical marathon ‘Wii Music’. Whilst most people have gone on record to state Nintendo’s demonstration of the game on the stage at this year’s smaller E3 event actually put them off what originally seemed like a very intriguing concept. If we are to believe Miyamoto-san, however, the project is more like a musical toy rather than a true video game, as the aim is to create something that will appeal to the wider audience. His exact words were that Wii Music will be “…more interesting than a video game.”

The creator of Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda fully feels that Wii Music will be able to act as a type of educational tool that will appeal to those that are not particularly taken by the likes of Rock Band and Guitar Hero. He went on to say:

“I really think that half of an elementary music school could be dedicated to this. I’m hoping that through Wii Music, we’ll get more drummers, more musicians and more people interested in music.”

Despite the initially negative opinion from the on-stage demonstration, reports from the actual show floor where individual play-tests took place indicated that that impressions were far better than expected, with players able to get a better feel of the instruments on offer, such as the guitars, steel drums, vibraphones, harpsichords, toy pianos, singers, tubas and even dog suits. On top of this, the fact that players are able to re-arrange the classic Super Mario Bros. will have helped matters considerably, winning over gamers on the whole. Throw in the fact that the player’s Mii character can ‘Beat Box’ and suddenly the whole prospect becomes much more exciting.

But is Wii Music the sort of product that has gained your attention, or is it completely off your radar?