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Will Wright Opines That Wii Is the Only Next-Gen Console
PhoenixOne writes "In an article that will probably tick off a lot of PS3 owners, Will Wright calls the PS3 and 360 'incremental improvement(s)'. 'The Wii feels like a major jump - not that the graphics are more powerful, but that it hits a completely different demographic. In some sense I see the Wii as the most significant thing that's happened, at least on the console side, in quite a while ... I still, for the most part, prefer playing games on the computer - to me the mouse is the best input device ever. Every generation it's like 'the PC's dead! The PC's dead!'. But it carries on growing when consoles are flat for five years. At the moment I can get better graphics on my PC than I can on the PS3.'"
if you linked to the actual interview rather than a quick blog quote from the interview.
I KNEW this would be the moderation I'd get on this one!
I actually made a point of avoiding stupid shit like 'fuck the wii' or 'wii is lame' or 'lol wii' no, I wrote a post explaining why I feel that way.
Go and listen to some fucking podcasts you imbeciles, go and read some REAL gaming news ARTICLES, I'm one of those idiot armchair analysts, I read and listen to gaming news more than I play the actual games, I ask people at work almost as if I'm undercover 'oh yeah hi bob, heard you got a wii, how is it?' - I am quite confident the damn system is HEAVILY over-rated and while it might be on the hype train over there in the states for you people, here in Australia the Wii isn't half as hot, people are snapping up the 360 like wildfire and Wii's are still sitting on shelves (selling but certainly not sold out)
The controller IS innacurate.
The majority of games ARE shoddy ports of old PS2 / GC / XB games with tacked on controls.
The graphics really are the same as last gen.
There's a lot of 'shovelware' games coming to the system.
It's a kiddie game system for 'party gamers', people with a lot of housemates / friends over etc, this system isn't a 'serious' gaming unit for the mid to hardcore gamer, the online capabilities are worse than the PS3 even, the SP games while quite possible are few and far between.
Hell I even pointed out that I want both the PS3 and 360 to win, I'm not a fanboy of either system, I'm just a gamer with zero interest in a device which has continually proven to not accomodate the serious gamer, in a variety of features and titles to chose from.
Go listen to a year of gametheory, 1up, gamespot, egm podcasts - believe it or not these gaming journo's are not just idiot gamers writing blogs, they know how the industry works - they work in it daily and the damn thing IS selling like hotcakes but it sure as hell isn't selling as many games as it should be, not at all and as I speculate above, it won't, the casual gamers don't spend money on games.
But! this is slashdot and the Wii, much like linux, apple and a plethora of other subjects is taboo to speak badly of!
Can some mods who've actually done some reading and have their own actual opinions moderate now please?
thanks lads.