Epic Game's president disses the Wii

[Riku Moon]

Right, Zelda I really didn't enjoy on it. They back-fitted the control scheme on it, it was better on the GameCube. Mario, I wish there had been a button instead of wiggle and all that kind of ****. So I haven't played anything that I really wished hadn't been on another platform sadly enough. It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. Obviously there's a class of people who really love it and enjoy it and are getting into the games but I'm still waiting for that one game that makes me play it. Who knows, maybe Wii Fit will be it.

When asked if he would ever consider development on the Wii;

No, we go forward, not back. It makes more sense for us to invest in the next-generation tech. There have been shops that have done it. Red Steel was a launch title and that was on Unreal Engine. So it's been done. How you take an engine that's all based on shaders and materials and run it on hardware that doesn't support shaders is just impossible. It's about as easy as PSP for us. Maybe it would make sense, but it makes more sense to invest going forward.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/868/868001p4.html

[ShàrkySN]

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. Obviously there's a class of people who really love it and enjoy it and are getting into the games but I'm still waiting for that one game that makes me play it. Who knows, maybe Wii Fit will be it.

Exactly my experience with it... One of my friends whos a Nintendo fanboy got one, my other friends saw it got one and none of them played it anymore after the first month... (bar the Nintendo fanboy friend who swears its the best console ever invented)

[Riku Moon]

Yeah, my little brother has one, and it just sits there. I haven't felt the need to buy one myself, since it doesn't have any RPGs.

[Wiggy Fuzz]

It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. Obviously there's a class of people who really love it and enjoy it and are getting into the games but I'm still waiting for that one game that makes me play it. Who knows, maybe Wii Fit will be it.

Exactly my experience with it... One of my friends whos a Nintendo fanboy got one, my other friends saw it got one and none of them played it anymore after the first month... (bar the Nintendo fanboy friend who swears its the best console ever invented)

shovelware? granted, the reason why the wii is selling is because once in a blue moon it gets a good title. just like the ds - i mean, i'm still playing advance wars DS, because it's good. i'm not playing nintendogs or brain training because they are boring as hell, despite the advertising and young mothers who beg to differ. and i'm definatley not playing imagine: babies, because it just plain sucks and is a blatant example of shovelware.

[Jax]

The Wii has good games that aren't mainstream. Just like the 360 and PS3 do.

[ShadowLegend]

So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on.

So I guess the 3 million+ people who just purchased Brawl and the hundreds-of thousands of people who buy Guitar Hero III every month just buy them to display their boxes on the mantlepieces, right?

I'm sorry, but this guy's just kind of annoying. He mentions Zelda being better on the Gamecube, (I'm sorry, even people who hated TP don't claim it was better on the GC, I doubt he played more than 10 minutes of it) he mentions Mario Galaxy (which makes minimal use of the waggle, at best,) and he neglects to Metroid Prime 3 (what a shock,) but meh...that's fine. He can pick-and-choose whatever games he wants.

His point would have been valid if Wii games weren't selling; clearly not the case, so I find it unlikely that nobody's playing the Wii. Again, unless people buy games simply to display them in their living rooms.

Speaking of systems simply being "left off after a month or so," and Wii development "not making as much sense as moving forward on next gen hardware," his company's recent Unreal Tournament game completely flopped on the PS3, interestingly he chose to ignore that fact, no surprises there, it doesn't do much to help his point.

shovelware? granted, the reason why the wii is selling is because once in a blue moon it gets a good title.

Dude, every month it gets a good title. Metroid Prime 3 in August, Batallion Wars II and Guitar Hero III in October, Fire Emblem and Mario Galaxy in November, No More Heroes in January, Brawl in March, Okami in March, Mario Kart in April, Wii Fit in May, Fatal Frame in June...

I mean, what do you mean "once in a blue moon"? Granted, I don't care of you or I think those are "good titles" or not, they were all "Critically acclaimed" hence all "good titles." My point being "Good games," come to the Wii all the time. I'm sorry people choose to not play certain ones...not my problem or Nintendo's.

[Shadows Chick]

NMH is probly the only actual effort of making a good game, and I wouldn't consider WiiFit a 'game'..

[Misfits Fiend]

NMH is probly the only actual effort of making a good game, and I wouldn't consider WiiFit a 'game'..

Well 100 years ago, the art community didn't consider the motion picture a form of art. Things change over time and if you dig deep enough, Wii Fit in many ways is the very definition of a video game.

Still, like Shadow mentions, there's so much this guy doesn't mention, it's not even funny. It's like he's made because the system he doesn't like is currently #1.

[EvilUser]

What a total *****.

[Shadows Chick]

WiiFit is no different from exercising to a Kathie Smith video.. you're using a Wii to move and burn calories.

Still, the Wii needs more FPS's and, above all, some good RTS's. It's fun using the Wiimote, but there's not enough games with which to really need to have it. MP3 is a good example of this- aiming is much more precise and faster than a controller. Perhaps third-party devs will bother to make an exclusive FPS or RTS for the Wii one day.

A few RPGs wouldn't hurt, also.