Looks like a cool and interesting project (what little is said about it), and their President gives some good insight as to relations between Factor 5 all of the big 3 (of Sny, Msoft, and Ninty). Its a long article, so if you dont read it all (but do want to argue) just enjoy this tidbit about the new graphics engine Factor 5 made for the wii: 

'"But the biggest milestone or mark right now is that we're almost done with the engine and it does everything that the PS3 did and then some, quite frankly. So we're pretty happy with that. '"

*enters bomb shelter* 

http://wii.ign.com/articles/851/851287p1.html

you mean like: put polygons on the tv and have a decent draw distance?

the quite some might be: doesnt force us to use motion controls.

it might give great graphics but it cant do HD so i am a litlle iffy on what this guy is pimping

Sorry I didn't read the article but that stament doesn't make sense unless Wii can now do 720P which would be really cool. I know engine can refer to alot of things but I would think graphics would be one of them.

Anyways, I like Julian. He is German so we share the same obsessions: David Hasselhoff, Gay guys in tights (Siegfried and Roy) and listening to the Scorpions. Sadly David isnt German so knight rider doesnt quite make the list - as opposed to his really cool music.

He likely means gameplay and rendering-wise. As in, it can render the dragon and all of the little guys in Lair... only in 480p and with worse textures.

"What happened back then. It was 2004 and I think, quite frankly, it came down to us wanting and needing to move on to the next-generation consoles. Nintendo at that point in time hadn't made up their mind, and I don't blame them, what the next-generation for them meant. We, of course, assumed that it was going to be something in the same vein of Microsoft and Sony, so we were kind of prodding and pushing them a little bit. We were saying, 'Come on guys. The road is pretty obvious. Why don't we get going on developing something in that vein because we all know where it's going to lead?' And they -- now in hindsight, of course, I know why -- but they always told us, 'No, why don't you keep it down? Don't think about 10 million polygons more. We're trying to figure something out here.' It was very mysterious throughout the year. Quite frankly, simple business matters happened. We had to run a studio, we had to pay people. And we had to jump onto something. That something at the time was basically the other upcoming consoles. Those guys were very aggressive as partners and at the time we didn't want to lay off anybody, and we needed the cash. So we happily went along with that also expected that sooner or later we could translate it back to whatever Nintendo came up with. Of course, we were blown away when they said, 'This is it, by the way,' which happened way later. So that's I think also why there were never any hard feelings. I think Nintendo knew what was going on with us and that to a certain degree that the time lapse forced us into how things happened. We never, ever had any bad break up, or anything like that. Which is also the case with Sony, by the way. We love the guys at Sony. So if we have another game which we want to work on with them, we would love to and I don't see any reason why not. Things there are a little overhyped on the Internet where people basically think that we all spit into each others' faces, which isn't the case at all."

Sounds interesting! I'm gonna keep my eye out on this one!

OMG!11!!! WII MORE POWERFUL THAN T3H PS3 CONFIRMED!!!11!

Seriously, i'm interested in what he was meaning with the engine. Obviously he isn't talking about polycount, pixel fill rate or textures. Or who knows, since i've been seeing threads "game X uses only 10% of PS3:s power", which should still be doable with the Wii.

Anyway, it was a good read but not long as OP promised. Silence of the lambs was a long read (yes, there is a book, in which the movie was based), not that interview. Oh well, to people like Soriku even every thread with more than 5 words is a long read.

Already discussed here: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=17094#end

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