how often do you see developers lashing out at the console maker? hopefully he wouldn't be backtracking tomorrow. this is quite refreshing. have we entered an age where AI is that important yet? game AI has been essentially neglected forever--don't blame it on the lack of computing power, but rather this is not what people pay for. a secondary reason is probably the lack of understanding of AI by game designers. if so, programmers won't be asked to carry out the AI codes. also, the whole field of AI is still si still basically brute force and little else. even a factor of 10 or 20 doesn't help you that much, because you can just sacrifice some details to get results that in no way the gamer is gonna notice. so i don't know what specific things he had in mind about computing power, but i'm guessing maybe it's about games like spore that devotes a lot of computing power in explicitly simulating the creature's entire environment, and this simulation of the environment is crucial to the gaming experience. spore seems exactly like that kind of game--and now a factor of 10 or 20 will matter pretty much exactly 10 or 20 times.
the Wii is an epidemic.
