Pretty interesting interview with Julian Eggebrecht from Factor 5. 

From http://www.gonintendo.com:

- On publishers not taking advantage of the Wii’s power for graphics: “the traditional, more photorealistic route, because there you really have to push it, and they’re really not pushing it. Why not? Hmmm I don’t know, the hardware is very, very easy to understand. Now the problem might be –and it just might be- is that some studios -or some publishers specifically- are discarding the graphical capabilities automatically simply because it is a Wii title and they’re basically telling the developers “look, we won’t pay for any advanced graphics”.”

- On Wii’s “shaders” and possibilities: “If you connect you can get a lot of shader effects which would’ve been on the 360 or the PS3.” (…)”it’s got so much more power compared to the GameCube. If even with the extremely similar shader hardware, the system clockrate is so much higher, you can do so much more advanced things” (…)”in the photorealistic route there’re certain things which the basic structure of the graphics hardware was not meant for and which you have to find really clever tricks to basically make up.”

- On porting their old tools (SW engine): “If we would do a Wii version of that, certainly that could be something which somebody could license. (…)” “But I can imagine that there will be several engines coming out, also for the Wii ”

- On casual gaming: “I really hate the current trend of the hardcore people very much getting into this bubble of being very defensive and not wanting the whole casual thing to happen. In the end it’s all one big market we’re, essentially we’re all casual.”

- On F5’s next project: “We’re honestly at this point thinking about several titles in development (…). So might be PS3, might be Wii… we’re totally open to that.”

- On Mario Galaxy: “is so inspired that it seems to be worth the success of Mario 64. (…) “yes, this thing is actually taking advantage, (…) it’s basically doing new graphical things with the hardware”

- On the German and European industry: “now that the consoles are coming back, specially with the Wii selling so extremely well, I think for the first time in many, many years, you actually have a pan-European situation where you can develop quite nicely”

I hope they make that exclusive game for the wii, factor 5 is known for making great starwars games.

Star Wars on W-W-W-W-W-W-Wii?!!

*Swoons*

@soriku

Im sure they would make an amazing starwars game with online compatibility and even using motion controls perfectly.

Cool interview...they definitely don't sound opposed to making a Wii game...doesn't sound like a Rogue Squadron would be coming anytime soon though.

All you people saying Factor 5 can make a great Star Wars game...did you play Rogue Squadron 3: Rebel Strike? It seems like you guys forgot this game...

It was ok...not that great. It looked amazing...the ship models were beautiful...but it was tedious, and land combat was awful. It was a 7 game in my opinion, and a hint of where Lair was headed. Now that Lair shows to be a 6 game...I have my doubts about Factor 5.

Well yeah they messed up but despite bad games they can always come back with real nice titles. They just need to be given more chances. I doubt that Factor 5 would take let themselves go any lower.

Luckily, LucasArts has already confirmed that beyond the Lego Star Wars for the Wii, they have another project in the making and the Wii Lego Star Wars will just give "a taste" of what lightsaber combat will be like.

You guys can have them, they screwed up lair and where given 10 extra months to make it right and they still failed, the motion controls are only the start of what was wrong with lair. Factor 5 is a company of old like Rare their best days are behind them.

They must of really tried hard to screw up lair, its not that hard to make a good game. They had one part right the Dragons, but they made them into crappy x-wings. and screwed the FPS up so bad the game is unplayable during most of the story.

It would be interesting to see a F5 game on the wii simply as they managed to take advantage of the gc hardware so early on. Would be interesting to see what they did with the Wii.

Hopefully they could get the gameplay in order though.