fazz said: Kasz216 said: fazz said: naznatips said:
Valve: This may come as a surprise, but I think it's very possible for Valve to create a major Wii game. Gabe Newell has made a point of saying the Wii is the only next gen system, |
Wasn't that Will Wright of Spore fame? Or did fatty say that? |
Will Wright did say it. That doesn't mean Newell didn't as well however |
Well I don't know, I just don't remember fatty saying that And Sega would be very stupid to ignore the success they are achieving on the Wii... oh wait... Sega is usually very stupid. |
Well, he didn't exactly say that, but he did basically call it the only true advancement in technology right now. Check it out:
GN: The Wii is a big hole in our strategy right now. As game designers you don’t really have to think of the PS3 or 360 being radically different from a PC. They’re a PC with a different controller. The game doesn’t have to change that dramatically. The machines render graphics. But the Wii is clearly challenging game designers to think very, very differently. The DS did the same thing. When I saw the DS before it shipped, I thought the PSP was going to crush it. 'What’s this stupid gimmick with the touchscreen?' As soon as I saw the games that Nintendo did, as a game designer, I went, 'Oh wow, I totally marginalised these guys incorrectly'. This was a game-driven set of decisions about what they were given. The Wii is the same way. They’ve proven that input is incredibly important in a way that the industry had kind of forgotten. They drove home the fact that on the PC we are using an input device from 1984 [the mouse]. But nothing has really changed since then: that probably indicates we’ve missed a lot of opportunities to do a lot of interesting stuff. Before 3D, after 3D, before being connected, after being connected – those were advances that the PC led, but now the PC is way behind in terms of input and the Wii is the best opportunity to explore this.
http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7421&Itemid=51
Definitely sounds like he's interested.