Source: http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10093&Itemid=2
Mike Capps, head of Epic, doesn’t like Nintendo’s Wii console one bit.
“… First of all, great credit to them,” Capps said of Nintendo in an IGN interview before the Wii bashing began. “The first time I played a videogame with my parents – aging myself a bit – was on Atari 2600. The next time I played a videogame with my parents, 25 years later or whatever, was Wii Tennis. So it's about bringing people together, families, Thanksgiving, all that. I think it's kind of like a weird virus because I have not yet found a reason to play with my Wii since then.
“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 goes out and buys 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."
In the wide-ranging interview, which includes some cool chat about Gears of War 2, Capps goes on to say, “We all say Wii now and never even think about the name anymore. They know what they're doing and they make money better than anyone else does. As an investor you love 'em, but as a next-gen console technology maker, they don't run UE3 and they can't."
And will Epic ever make a Wii title?
“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.”
Stinging stuff.
My thoughts: How can someone with presumably such intelligence say something this stupid? Wii software sales are fantastic, he's just using his own anacdotal "evidence" to reach to this conclusion. He has every right to hate the Wii, but what he says is just... well, stupid.
