One of Spores developers says "Wii is a piece of..."

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PS4 said: http://wii.ign.com/articles/771/771051p1.html GDC 2007: "The Wii is a Piece of Sh*t!" One of Spore's developers rants about Nintendo's "two GameCubes stuck together with duct tape." by Daemon Hatfield March 7, 2007 - During a session at GDC this morning titled 'Burning Mad - Game Publishers Rant,' time was taken about half way through to allow developers a chance to spew their own rants. One speaker, Chris Hecker, currently working on Spore at Maxis, took the opportunity to call out Nintendo for not taken games seriously. "The Wii is a piece of shit!" Hecker began his talk, which was called "Fear of a Wii Planet." He blasted a few bars of Public Enemy to set the tone. Hecker said the Wii is nothing more than two GameCubes stuck together with duct tape, and that the console isn't powerful enough to provide the next-gen experience he has been waiting for. Although he stated the system is "severely underpowered," Hecker noted that he wasn't simply referring to the Wii's graphical capabilities. He wants to spend a console's CPU making games more intelligent, and he has found the Wii doesn't have the power to process things like complicated AI. Hecker also took Nintendo to task for not taking games seriously enough. "It's not clear to me that Nintendo gives a shit about games as an art form," he said. To illustrate his point, he searched for references to games as art on all three console manufacturers web sites. While he found numerous such references on both the official PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sites, Wii.com had none at all. He then shared quotes from executives at Sony and Microsoft talking about games as a serious artistic medium, and then a quote from a Nintendo executive saying the company only wanted to make "fun" games. Hecker ended his spirited rant with two demands for Nintendo: First, recognize and push games as serious art. And two, "make a console that doesn't suck ass."

He can rant forever about Wii and its sheer power, he probably didn't even put any effort on coding on that machine... People that rant for power are just bad coders IMHO!!! Look at what was done in the past with much less power (talking about GoW and Okami on the far inferior PS2, not to count Shadow of the colossus and FFXII) all of them considered a form of art. As for good AI, it's just a matter of optimising on what you are trying to do (ie: FPS are different from racing games that are different from shooters and so on), good AI were done in this past generation which again were far inferior to the Wii. If he 's unable to do a good AI for a game then just don't do it!!! If he need an Intel Core 2 Quad T6800 to do a good one then he better change his work, because neither the PS3 nor the X360 are powerful as a high end PC!!! Heck the sent man on the moon with a fuckin' pc that was powerful as a C64...