That's kinda interesting. Who'd have figured they'd be unwilling and quit. They'll get picked up by other HD-developing studios though, or if enough left to fit all the positions needed, they could start a new studio.

I don't like the Wii at all, to be quite honest. However, I'm pretty excited for what their next console could be. In that light, I wish developers would embrace the Wii more so that their next gen can get the caliber of third-party games that I expect on a Nintendo console. They've always been a very strong first-party developer, but their third-party games used to be much better.

No, come back! We need your close-minded, inflexible ideas of yesterday!

I guess this happened 2 or 3 years ago. Back in the day everybody thought that the videogame industry was "Recession Proof" and that almost every HD project could sell millions. (And now we had recession, big titles being pushed, studios being closed and people being layed off)

Its interesting that he blames it on the Wii when EA has built a reputation for hiring young developers and working them to excessive levels to meet arbitrary timelines that were set by the marketing department. Now, I don't know anyone who worked at EA after they started devoting more and more resources to the Wii, but I do know someone who quit EA because he ended up working over 60 hours a week (with no overtime) for (over) a year straight in order to get the HD version of Madden 07 out in time.

Now, I find a certain irony in his statement just knowing of a couple of causal gaming companies that were founded by former EA employees that enjoyed videogame development but wanted to be able to have a life with their career choice. The benefit for them of being able to work 40 hour weeks (most of the time) and take vacations was far more valuable than getting slightly prettier grass on a football field.

Did he blame Wii Fit?

As I said before, Peter Moore is not complaining, and he is not blaming the Wii.

It is well known that there is a difference in the type of gamers that typically (but not all) that buy a Wii...

The sales curves are different, the type of people buying the Wii are typically different, etc. Unfortunately, core gamers have become a physical minority in gaming. The world is changing the definition of gaming to include interactive and social entertainment rather then just gaming. This is not bad, and both will continue to exist.

But I am sure that the number of core games released will start to decrease over time (due to cost and diminishing returns on investment) and the number of casual games will continue to grow exponentially (cheaper to create and expontential returns when they catch on aka Wii Sports).

History shows that any industry that doesn't look at the big market is an indusrty that doesn't continue to exist. This is an opinion this is a fact.

Developers and/or staff can be just as ego centric. ACtually it's more often true that any person or group working in the elite field for so long will not be willing to change. The funniest thing is that their elite market was once non elite.

Core gamers have always been a minority.

Hmmm, I suppose the people unwilling to change, are those that wanted to see if they could push themselves and push the hardware to try and achieve more realistic graphics, and more realistic animations and AI....the wii to them may have been a stagnant pool of water, and found their river on the teams that were handling games for the competition. Hell it's like an abstract artist being told, you are no longer doing abstract art, your now doing anime art, so get cracking....To this abstract artist, he's lost the freedom to express and progress the form of art which he loves.

So really it's not that they don't want to change per se, more that they want to refine and progress what they've been doing all these years with out being hindered.

take that as you will.