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Rainbird on 22 May 2010
scottie said:
Rainbird said:
scottie said:
herp derp I'm just going to ignore the fact that Saturo Iwata said that in 2003, when gamers did not buy online games, and thus he was completely correct when he said it, and now that it is no longer true he no longer believes it.

Stop your trolling IGN and just go the fuck out of business

Lol, lighten up. And it's not like the PC had popular online games like Battlefield 1942, Diablo 2 or Warcraft III at the time, not to mention Halo on the Xbox.

Uhm rainbird? halo, BF1942 and Warcraft III are mostly splitscreen multiplayer or lan games, the online component was at most, icing on the cake. And you know that using PC games is irrelevant, because Iwata is obviously talking about the console market (what with that whole, representing a console manufacturer thing :P.

But they were online games none the less, and all of them are played online to this day (though I don't know how big the Halo and BF1942 playerbase is, they can't be that big anymore). The first SOCOM had even been released then.

My point was, don't take it so seriously. Online gaming was growing back then, and IGN found the comment fitting for this little thing, it's just for the fun of it.



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badgenome on 22 May 2010

Good stuff. The Cliffy B one is hysterical.



badgenome on 22 May 2010
scottie said:
herp derp I'm just going to ignore the fact that Saturo Iwata said that in 2003, when gamers did not buy online games, and thus he was completely correct when he said it, and now that it is no longer true he no longer believes it.

Stop your trolling IGN and just go the fuck out of business

He said it in 2004, about six months before the release of Halo 2. So it kind of funny!



Pyro as Bill on 22 May 2010

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aragod on 22 May 2010
scottie said:
Rainbird said:
scottie said:
herp derp I'm just going to ignore the fact that Saturo Iwata said that in 2003, when gamers did not buy online games, and thus he was completely correct when he said it, and now that it is no longer true he no longer believes it.

Stop your trolling IGN and just go the fuck out of business

Lol, lighten up. And it's not like the PC had popular online games like Battlefield 1942, Diablo 2 or Warcraft III at the time, not to mention Halo on the Xbox.

Uhm rainbird? halo, BF1942 and Warcraft III are mostly splitscreen multiplayer or lan games, the online component was at most, icing on the cake. And you know that using PC games is irrelevant, because Iwata is obviously talking about the console market (what with that whole, representing a console manufacturer thing :P.

In 2003 it's been over 6 years since first payed MMORPG with milion of users was beeing played daily, 5 years since the launch on the biggest ongoing multiplayer RTS, 5 years since launch of the most played and ongoing online FPS. None of these games had splitscreen and all of them were beeing played mainly online (not singleplayer, LAN was just optional). So with PC games you are way, way off.

So in 2003 the forecast that gamers won't like going online and get "social" was a huge miss.



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andremop on 22 May 2010
Wagram said:
If Yamauchi really said that people who like RPGs are depressed gamers. Then he needs to be slapped in the face for being a borderline moron.

He was talking about japanese gamers. And I once read something telling exactly that, that RPGs are quite popular with the...how can we call them?... failures of society there, those man who couldn't be successful in life - there's even a japanese term used for them. But of course he's very wrong saying ALL gamers (even japanese gamers) are like that.

I'll try to find it for you.



bugrimmar on 22 May 2010
Reasonable said:
I'm not saying it's a good thing, in fact it probably isn't, but Reeves wasn't lying really - he was rather being bizarrely honest in a way that puzzled me at the time and still does as his comment clearly indicates the arrogance and knowledge Sony had at the time that a certain percentage of people really were going to by a PS3 no matter what games were available.


Moore's things break isn't a lie either, really.

Ah, what the hell, I love the design though even if when I think about only a few of the quotes really are examples of executives lying.

yeah, but they were still really stupid things to say anyway. i think IGN should've written this as "stupid things execs say" instead of "lies".



Carl on 22 May 2010
scottie said:
herp derp I'm just going to ignore the fact that Saturo Iwata said that in 2003, when gamers did not buy online games, and thus he was completely correct when he said it, and now that it is no longer true he no longer believes it.

Stop your trolling IGN and just go the fuck out of business

Most. Defensive. Guy. Ever.

And as plenty have told you, online gaming was still big even back then.

OT:
The Resident Evil 4 one is awesome



                            

pariz on 22 May 2010

I think those phrases tell a lot of gaming industries, prejudices around it and the moment in which they were said.
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Boutros on 22 May 2010

Don't mind the haters IGN, I love what you do.