While studying for a degree in Game Production Management one of the course texts was a book called On Game Design by Ernest Adams and some other dude who's name escapes me, now having read the entire article on gamasutra i think Ernest likes the look of his own written words. The first thing i asked myself was when did he write this piece? has it been sitting on his hard drive for a while? it seems so, my best guess was around about May time just after the last E3 because thats the perspective that it took on the situation. I can only speculate that Ernest hasn't been reading the very bad press surrounding the PS3 and its insistance on moving away from being a Games Console first and foremost.
I really cant believe i trusted this guy's opinion on Game Design, his half baked ideas should and could have been much more thought out. Ernest needs to think outside the box more and step out of the timewarp that he lives in and realise that the market dynamics have changed incredibly since the times of the analogies that he was using in the article.
Ernest needs to realise that the PS3 is leaking Exclusives like a rusty squashed flat bucket on its side that it really is, he needs to understand the development requirements of the PS3 versus Xbox 360 and he needs to understand that the Wii is something brand new to people and that counts for everything. Most of all though if this is all Ernest has to say then he should really keeps his uninformed opinions to himself.
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While studying for a degree in Game Production Management one of the course texts was a book called On Game Design by Ernest Adams and some other dude who's name escapes me, now having read the entire article on gamasutra i think Ernest likes the look of his own written words. The first thing i asked myself was when did he write this piece? has it been sitting on his hard drive for a while? it seems so, my best guess was around about May time just after the last E3 because thats the perspective that it took on the situation. I can only speculate that Ernest hasn't been reading the very bad press surrounding the PS3 and its insistance on moving away from being a Games Console first and foremost. I really cant believe i trusted this guy's opinion on Game Design, his half baked ideas should and could have been much more thought out. Ernest needs to think outside the box more and step out of the timewarp that he lives in and realise that the market dynamics have changed incredibly since the times of the analogies that he was using in the article. Ernest needs to realise that the PS3 is leaking Exclusives like a rusty squashed flat bucket on its side that it really is, he needs to understand the development requirements of the PS3 versus Xbox 360 and he needs to understand that the Wii is something brand new to people and that counts for everything. Most of all though if this is all Ernest has to say then he should really keeps his uninformed opinions to himself.