Miyamoto: Violent games may damage “the potential of what games can do”

[milkyjoe]

Carl2291 said:

milkyjoe said:

You're missing the point rather spectacularly here. Rockstar make GTA/Manunt. These are violent games. They also made Midnight Club, two Austin Powers games, and a version of Earthworm Jim amongst many other non-violent games.

Shigsy was talking about the companies that only make the violent ones.

Like who?

LordTheNightKnight said:

You missed the sentence right before that, which wasn't even about violent games. Talk about misquoting.

"Sometimes, games designers tend to focus their attention on a limited particular area of their expression. That is simply narrowing down the potential of what video games can do"

He was asked what he thought about "violent titles such as Modern Warfare 2". If anyone misquoted, it wasn't me... It was whoever wrote the article putting that in a section about his thoughts on violent videogames.

Like who? There's a perfect example in the article. Infinity Ward have done nothing but Call of Duty so far. That isn't to say they shouldn't or that it's a bad thing, but there is only so far they can go with one type of game marketed to one type of gamer as they will at some point hit maximum exposure within that target market. Diversification is key to true success.