Principles are easy to have when you don't have a mortgage ...

I agree completely. So maybe he should have thought about that before shooting his mouth off.

The guy who says the Wii is a piece of shit takes it all back btw.

Yes I'm referring to no wealthy individuals and I never said art wasn't displayed in public places. This was in response your assumption that all people did during the renaissance was stare at sculpture all day for fun. Of course not all artist are famous and as someone else summarized, it's really dependent on art historians and what happens to be "in" at the time but I never said anything about "average" people being incapable of making or appreciating art. As another person said, Directors are artist and actors are their tools. They all perform works made by others, thus they can be seen as a medium for composers, choreographers, ect. Should anything that entertains someone be considered "art", or is something thats meant to communicate emotion or ideas "art"?

I agree but think that if you make a mistake you should swallow your pride, admit to your mistake and appologize ... Personally, I suspect that he is appologizing for the wrong reasons but that is another matter

Oh yeah, completely. It's very obvious that his employers told him to apologize or find another job.

Well he's certainly not on my list of favorite developers, but I think it's not so bad that he's speaking his mind, as much as it's worse because he's effectively speaking for the whole Spore crew from the public's view.

Strom, I think you're a little out of touch. Basically every game publisher out there is pledging more support to Wii than they did to Gamecube, and in total, its now getting into the same ballpark as PS3. Major games announced this year include Guitar Hero Wii, DDR Wii, Manhunt 2, Dewy's Adventure, Space Station Tycoon, Red Steel 2, Godzilla... Today the news was a Steven Speilberg Wii project... But where it really gets impressive is the amount of studios looking to hire Wii developers. Read maybe the last 50-100 pages of this blog, and you'll find tons of new game announcements, and just as many studios proclaiming future Wii support and looking to hire Wii developers. You'll probably also find reference to the shortage of Wii development kits. http://theboard.zogdog.com/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=11& Just based on retail content, Wii is closing in on PS3... About 85-90% the amount of named projects, based on my personal browsing of the Gamespot and Wikipedia lists... Add in the unnamed projects, and its basically impossible to say. Add in downloadable games, and Wii is way ahead so far, closing in on 100 games out already. In terms of exclusives, Wii is behind 360, but ahead of PS3, according to a gamingtarget article... And they weren't counting "next-gen exclusives", of which Wii is presumably the leader. I think the momentum is clearly in Wii's favor in just about every way. Especially considering that with their price tags, the other guys will likely have to have a lot more content than Wii just to sell the same amount.

I would quit rather than be forced to apologize for not liking a system. He should not have apologized and should have quit and stood his ground. He is clearly a weak little man.

See that's where most people disagree. Even I'd probably rather keep my VERY well-paying job in exchange for an apology...I don't think it'd be worth losing your job as a Spore developer because you hold true to your ideas about the current Nintendo console.