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Forums - Nintendo - Here we go again: Heavy Rain creator calls Wii a toy and board game

Aiddon on 03 November 2010
Metallicube said:

I just love how this mass of "hardcore" gamers/developers/journalists constantly try to undermine the Wii's success by making it seem inferior and inflating their ego, so that they can convince themselves that the games they're playing make them "TEH HARDCOR3Z!" They are so elitist it makes me sick.


Well, this is the man who once said "most games are still being made for kids" so an arrogant, egotistical statement is just par for the course with him.



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Beuli2 on 03 November 2010
pariz said:

You wanna know what looks like a toy?

That embarrasing Move controller does...

Not, Move doesn't look like a toy, it looks like a d- oops.



Above: still the best game of the year.

Doobie_wop on 03 November 2010

His right. The Wii is a toy. The Gamecube was also a toy. My PS3 is half a toy, mainly because it's also my main media centre which is hooked up to my sound system to cover my Blu-Ray, music, online (limited) and photo needs. I wouldn't consider my mobile or my GPS a toy, they can play games, but they are also a necessity in my day to day life in  the same way my PS3 is.



Bet with Conegamer and AussieGecko that the PS3 will have more exclusives in 2011 than the Wii or 360... or something.

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=3879752

xeroxm3 on 03 November 2010

I'm trying to watch the video right now however my internet is being brutally slow. From what I can tell he didn't mean it as an insult, but more as a playful group experience type of thing. I don't completely agree with what he said but I will say that the translation used is a bit off.



Chairman-Mao on 03 November 2010

I agree with David Cage.



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Metallicube on 03 November 2010

My take is this: Either all video game consoles are toys or none are. Personally, I lean towards they are ALL toys, because they are devices you play with for entertainment. I don't see how you can be selective about which game consoles are toys and which aren't.. They all play video games don't they? You can't have your cake and eat it too.



-PaNdOrA- on 03 November 2010

Well then, I guess I still play with toys... O.o



hatmoza on 03 November 2010

I disagree!

Chess is awesome!



I am the black sheep     "of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong."-Robert Anton Wilson

Maynard_Tool on 03 November 2010

Well... let me know when Heavy rain hits the 10 Million mark ;)



03/10/09 HUGE day in my life:

http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=63437&page=1

.jayderyu on 03 November 2010

... I'm an RPG gamer. The ones that are 200 pages. In all honestly I can tell you now. That I/we consider RPG the peak of table top gaming. Along with TT War Games :P . Risk, Monopoly. They are Toy's in regards to gaming. Simplified and for the "casual". Well suffice to say. Many companies would love to see their RPG sell like Monopoly. However most of the RPG community has grown past the "we are better" mentality. The community has come to accept that taste, time, preference is the most important factors. To say Monopoly is like a Toy isn't derogatory. It's just  state of fact that it appeals to different taste.

So when will the VG industry reach this maturity.... I would say apx 10-20 years. When the Gamers brought up on the Wii will be getting into the industry.



Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.