HappySqurriel said:
Its not that "awards are meaningless" but these awards really are meaningless ... What would the value be in giving out awards for the best Movies/Trailers? Why aren't awards given out for the best 3 paragraph description of a novel that is written on the back cover?
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You're right, to some extent. Although I'm sure if someone took the time to look at the Metascores (post-release critical reviews) for all the nominees and winners from the 1998 - 2007 Game Critics Awards, they would be rated far higher by video game critics than the games that didn't get nominated or win.
We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process. - SCEI president Kaz Hirai
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. - Epic Games president Mike Capps
We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games. - Activision CEO Bobby Kotick
