Man when Adam is the voice of reason from G4 and that sort of ilk there's something really wrong going on, I don't mean that in a bad way at all, the guy is amazing, but give him a game from a genre he doesn't really like and he'll rant for days usually leading me to bust a gut from laughter, anyway despite that he very much sees the industry as it is right now at least from the third party side of things, which is why he purposely said "leave out the Wii"
Cause really that's how it is, want the big third party hype train blockbuster title? Well there will be two every month! It'll be amazing(ly the same as the last 20 blockbusters!) and really it's one thing the movie biz really pays attention to, you can't fund a million summer blockbusters cause guess what it exhausts the consumer base and too many spread the base too thin so people with really amazing work (something like Scott Pilgrim for movies and Chronicles of Riddick for games) end up not doing so well or actually losing tons of money.
Honestly I'm 100% with Sessler as well, which is why I very much enjoy my Wii, those creative games where people do something different and it isn't one big (PENIS!) blockbuster after another, I love my No More Heroes, my Epic Mickeys, my Tatsunko vs Capcoms, and my Nintendo titles cause it breaks up the monotony and I don't get exhausted playing my Chronicles of Riddick, my Black Ops, or my Battlefield Bad Companys.
It's kinda funny, he mentions how the colorful creative projects are sorta seen as kiddy or not macho enough, those sorts of projects seem to land on Wii, while the blockbusters on HD consoles, the Wii is "kiddy and for casuals" and the HD consoles are for the macho "hardcorez", funny how that duality played out this gen, third parties had a lot to do with it, but he also mentioned how those creative projects tend to sell less which is very true, but he as a real core gamer still wants those sorts of titles, which leads to "core games bombing on Wii" when really most of them are just those same low selling creative titles that have been around and always done just marginally well, they're never meant to be the next CoD.
Yes... yes this is all coming together now...
