Raskie on 08 March 2007
fooflexible said:
First off Sony and Microsoft don't call their system art either, sure they like pretty graphics, but calling a game art really doesn't sell it. nonetheless I think saying nintendo only cares about fun is a silly thing to assume too, I really think he's annoyed that Nintendo didn't push graphics harder. Because art direction in Twilight Princess was praised by every review I read. If you check out Super Paper Mario videos that have popped up from GDC the game is beautiful, it is a testment to just how much an artform the old platform titles were. So you can't really knock Nintendo on this notion. In fact Nintendo is the only company that actually attempt to turn their console into an art medium, ala Mario Paint. But of course he's not really talking about art, he's talking about graphics. But of course saying "art" just makes you sound more sophisticated.
The article I here read goes on to the dicuss, Ai (fleetingly), and other shit, so there is no doubt that Chris Hecker is talking about "art".
It's no big deal. Changing the colour of the manure, won't mask the smell. Why don't he release Spore on the Cray 2, or something?
