What would be so strange about that? I still play Counterstrike 1.6 and Unreal Tournament, both of which are around a decade old. I'm sure you still play your Wiisports or Wiiplay as well, does that make you a looser? If these are the sole requisites for being a strange guy or a looser or a stupid gamer then nearly all the members here fit the bill. Should we just throw away our games after 12-18 months? I really, really don't understand what you tried to do in that post, but I know this; you failed, in a big way.

Do what you have to do Mr. Capps. It's your business, and as such you have the freedoms to develop for who you want when you want. But when you make comments like this:

"...but I'm still waiting for that one game that makes me play it."

and this:

"...and then they buy it and stop playing it after 2 months."

To me it just seems ignorant so say something like that. I've seen my fair share of these comments... way back in the summer of 2006 at NSider. We've heard these petty "arguments" before, and it's been disproven time and time again. My advice for Mr. Capps is this, if you want to find a "game that makes me play it." look harder, because they're out there. And if you put in some research, you'll find that Wii owners are continuing to have fun and enjoy their games.

Am I the only one who thinks "hardcore" and "casual" are buzzwords used to categorize largely diverse market fragments?

Anyway, again, this means absolutely nothing, and it's something fans of the industry knew for a long time.

It's just fanboy ammo, flung by low caliber posters.

I guess its expected, since every console has their share of haters. I just wish the Wii wasn't doing so well, so everybody with littleman's syndrome could stfu about it every once in a while?

Clear, decisive, and on point.

Sad that he act this way...Sad that people don't like Epic anymore because of his words...

In that case I actually have respect for him. He just does what he likes without taking the easy way. Before I get all kinds of comments: I'm serious. If he doesn't want to make Wii games, while that's where the money is, he sees making games as a passion, and I like that. 

The point never was "we want epic games on the Wii"

The point was, he shouldn't flame the console using anecdotal evidence, while calling it a virus no one ever plays.

It's certainly false according to the sale figures of software in the US. It appears that either more people play their Wii's than their 360, or those people who still play their Wiis simply buy more software per console. Because, on an average month, the Wii will come very close, or even outsell the 360 in software amounts in the US alone, despite having a smaller userbase.

The fact that I have to defend the Wii against this anti-Wii fanboy bullet point, which was actually flung by someone who represents a development company, and should know better, well, that's why this has soured me towards the company. 

Exactly why I thought when I read his statements... plus he has a sense of humour unlike most devs who are shamelessly promoting their games 100% of the time in interviews. I thought the virus comment is quite funny...

I don't see why wii fans see his comment as an insult...some nintendo dev called xbox live full of shit few weeks back without any reason why... that was an insult. 

 Regardless, Epic's main business is their middleware engines.  Wii middleware engines aren't really needed as much.  Why waste time working on a whole new engine, or adapting one for the Wii when they can focus on the next Unreal engine or improving the current unreal engine which has a much bigger need.

...because people have never bought a PS3 that's collected dust.

Just last week, even Microsoft came out and admitted the Wii is great for the industry, with all the new people it draws in.

Instead, obviously, Capps believes these people don't exist. Instead, they only play their Wii for a couple of weeks, and then never play it again.

So, to Capps, the Wii is a drag on the gaming industry as a whole, because of graphics.

Graphics, afterall, are the most important thing to gaming, according to his ideology. How can we woo and wow our fanbase and get our ideas out there without current gen graphics and physics?


This ideology should be in the dictionary under "First Person Shooter developers."


Graphics and physics compensate for other failings, like innovation in the genre. That is why they feel graphics are so important.

Not only that, but if they hate the Wii for one reason, why make up another reason to flame it. It's so childish.

It's like, "The Wii will only give us scraps, so it's our enemy now! Nobody plays the Wii! Haha, take that."

I feel like I'm reading the opinion of an online shooter fanboy. I would just expect that the actual president of a company would be a little bit smarter, and not go around touting how "leet" he is.

He actions scream of a Mom's Basement programming office. Just one that is particularly well off, and rich. Their target audience is the "fratboy gamer" market fragment, which I've always had a problem with, since the original Playstation was release, but I'll not bring up my own ideology here. I'll just reitterate how dissapointed I am in the company.

I remember in a place not far from here, when MS made a snarky remark on PS3 GTAIV install times and those who took offense were apparently stupid fanboys without a sense for humour, yet the situation is the exact same if someone critiques the Wii. (This has nothing to do with disolitude, just an observation!)

Just goes to show that indeed none of the groups in here are better than others and everyone has a sore spot for their console of choice.

OT: I could've been considered in bad taste what he said, but was anyone honestly surprised at this from a dev like Epic? I sure wasn't, knowing their track record, I expected as much from their part.