A portion of a GameCyte interview with Hudson's Mike Pepe...

GameCyte: Whenever you put together a sport-game compilation on the Wii, the comparison that’s going to be made is to Wii Sports. What is it that differentiates Deca Sports?

Mike Pepe: We set out on Deca Sports, not to compete with Wii Sports, but to complement. Wii Sports comes with five titles, it ships with every Wii Console out there, and it really brings Wii players into the fold; it basically shows them what they can do on the system. What we offer here are ten new sports, completely new sports, with different challenges. You also have teams involved, so, for instance, there are eight different teams inside Deca Sports, each with different attributes, that you can play. So, this is for the more mature players that have “graduated” Wii Sports, and are moving on.

Full interview here