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

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HappySqurriel said: I'm not so sure that is the only way they can survive ... Nintendo (probably) came to the realization that they can not win a "straight up" competition against Sony and Microsoft; this made them look towards changing the rules to suit them better.

Yes, I would agree. They simply saw that they were in no position to compete with Microsoft and Sony. They simply did not have the financial capbility to develop a state of the art plattform and finance its lifetime. In general it was more expexted that they would drop out of the game and would become a software house. Instead they dropped out of the game and simply raised an IMHO valid question: Do we really need strong HD games? I think Microsoft has a clear target for its HD console: Collect PC dropouts. If you don't play state of the art games the PC upgrades get much cheaper. But for Nintendo, that in general attracted younger players, the question was difficult. Most kids and even some households don't have a HD Display: So they simply dropped out of this game and simply remembered that there are a lot of games that don't need a stunning graphic to be enjoyable. Although I think that ther Wii is at the moment a bit overexagerated, I think that they will secure their market share. They might even have more cutomers than the HD plattforms. But I think from a game developers standpoint the Plattform is a headache, if you want to write multi-plattform-games. While you can convert a PC game to the Xbox 360 (DuoCore, TripleCore or QuadCors, thats no fundamental difference and you can port from the Xbox to the PS-3 the Wii simply does not fit in there. It would need a complete rewrite. And I think this frustration is the reason for these remarks. It does not fit in a multi-plattform-strategy, instead it needs its own games. this is a risk that the Wii takes.. But I think due to their signifcant sells it will get such exclusive third party support. You might not get the typical hardcore gamers this way, but you will find (potential) customers nonetheless. But the problem for EA is: They are mainly targeted for multi-plattform-games, which give them advantages for Xbox 360 and PS-3 but on the Wii they are on they are not in a very good position. But I don't really think that his comment was really a concious attack on the Wii. It would be too obvious and I don't see any possible gains. A well founded sceptical opinion would have had a much stronger effect. It is much more probable that these remarks were simply based on frustrations.