Wii is a Virus: Epic Boss
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gregpolk said:
Maybe I missed this, but his response wasn't that it kills the game industry, but that the focus of his business plan doesn't involve scaling back; however, other companies are scaling back (ala red steel). It's not the company focii.
Is it in the article, or did you make up the part about "destroying the creativity of the games industry?" Source!
I can't fault Mike Capps there. It's true, the Wii is technologically inferior from a processing standpoint. Everybody knows that, so what?
Yup, right again. I'm a happy Wii owner who can't afford the time to gorge myself on every new game out there. If I had a 360, I'd own only about 4 games. I have a Wii and only want (and/or already own) about 6 games that it has to offer. My destructive purchasing habits will be the bane of the gaming industry! ;-)
I'll tell ya what's gimmicky... it's next-gen graphics, that's what.
There is a big difference between whats good and what sells.
Right place, right time, right price.... The Wii won the first strike, but it will fade quickly.
There will more than likely be multiple versions of the Wii release before the PS3's EOL.
The PS3 is the console of the future, and that's when everyone will buy it.
Right place, right time, right price.... The Wii won the first strike, but it will fade quickly.
There will more than likely be multiple versions of the Wii release before the PS3's EOL.
The PS3 is the console of the future, and that's when everyone will buy it.
Oops, I kind of repeated what you said... er, I mean summarized it. Yes, I summarized it and forgot to give you credit. I'll do better next time! Promise. ;-)stompy said:
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Like a black one, followed by other colors? ;-)Kemmler0 said:
Oprah speaks about Wii Fit? That's not a surprise, since the marketing machine and goal of Nintendo. Still, Wii Fit has very little to nothing to do with gaming, and I truly pity Nintendo for trying to sell that tablet (which they do, but hell, a lot of people buy shit).L.B. Jeffries said:
Now is Oprah a seal of quality?
How much innovative stuff is actually appearing on the Wii?
Especially when compared to XBLA or PSN?
I agree, however, that the race to more powerful technology is killing the industry. But maybe that's because the tools aren't providing enough high quality content at faster rates?
It's possible that with more efficient tools, production costs could be cut a tad (not much I'm afraid, though).
It's funny how we're entering a new era of Neo Geos, which only the richest will be able to acquire. The number of games they need to sell to return a profit is extremely high, considering the budgets.
The Wii problem? It detracts buyers from the more powerful consoles, reduces the sales of said consoles, and thus reduces the sales of the games on such consoles. Ergo Epic: "the Wii is not for us" or something along those lines.
The Seal? It quickly became a joke. At best, it would mean your game was roughly bug free - and that's even disputable (NES in sight). It hardly guaranteed a quality of games.JakubK666 said:
Both sir, in my opinion. The type of audience the Wii reaches, combined to its catalogue, easily explain the situation.j-e-f-f-e-r-s said:
The Wii is not a bad console, far from it. Nintendo put a hell of money and completely built the appeal out of the blue, but now it's really getting implanted. It's not generating legions of new avid gamers, but it's putting a video console in places where you wouldn't expect it with the 360 or PS3. It also has easy controls. Not the best by far, but they do their job more or less well.
In that sense, it's indeed a sort of virus, but it's more a therapy, a necessary step part of a war to democratize games.
Still, it's largely gimmicky.
As for UT3, I don't understand the appeal. For me, it's doesn't seem to have any flavour.
This is not the first time it happens here.xMacx said:
I'd like the summaries use less spin, unless the magazine should be called The Sensasionalist?
P. 4 of the article, Epic guy did criticize the Wii, but it's integrated to a whole article that describes what Epic is looking for, so you get it as Wii is not part of their plan.
But it doesn't mean it's correct to label the Wii as something going backwards. It after all did positive things.
There was a great quote in the interview over on IGN (talking about GoW2)
At the bottom of page 2:
"Our voice actors were crying in the studio..."
A line like that makes me immediately think that the dialogue is absolutely terrible and they don't really want to read the lines, but there's somebody with a gun pointed at their back.
At the bottom of page 2:
"Our voice actors were crying in the studio..."
A line like that makes me immediately think that the dialogue is absolutely terrible and they don't really want to read the lines, but there's somebody with a gun pointed at their back.
Know what I was JUST playing before I got here? "Samurai Showdown Anthology"
Know what I'm going to be playing the shit out of come January? "Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom"... well... "MAG", too, but alot of "TvC"
I'd say I get much more use playing old Virtual Console software than I do out of almost anything the Unreal Engine has brought to me this gen, good games as they be, it doesn't bother me in the least that the Wii is using its lacking processor, not every game is bad simply because it's not high-end. Moving the industry backwards, though?
Capps is the definition of butthurt right now.
Know what I'm going to be playing the shit out of come January? "Tatsunoko Vs. Capcom"... well... "MAG", too, but alot of "TvC"
I'd say I get much more use playing old Virtual Console software than I do out of almost anything the Unreal Engine has brought to me this gen, good games as they be, it doesn't bother me in the least that the Wii is using its lacking processor, not every game is bad simply because it's not high-end. Moving the industry backwards, though?
Capps is the definition of butthurt right now.
I've been a huge fan of Epic ever since Unreal Tournament first burned into my old monitor, but over the last few years, they've been showing the world just how gigantic their egos are, instead of doing what everyone else is doing (with the except of Activision), which is merely shutting the fuck up and making games.
Besides, they can't really talk about being "backwards" considering UT3 on PC looks like a shitty console port anyways.
But they fell with the new generation crowd of "MORE POLYGONS = MORE GAME" as opposed to, well, actual gameplay.
And don't even get me started on what everyone already knows as far as dumbing down games to appeal to aretarded broader audience.
Besides, they can't really talk about being "backwards" considering UT3 on PC looks like a shitty console port anyways.
But they fell with the new generation crowd of "MORE POLYGONS = MORE GAME" as opposed to, well, actual gameplay.
And don't even get me started on what everyone already knows as far as dumbing down games to appeal to a