Spore Dev Down On the Wii

An anonymous reader writes "As reported by IGN, Spore developer Chris Hecker made a very quotable statement at a traditionally contentious GDC panel. At the 'Game Publishers Rant' event Wednesday morning, Hecker stated that he thought the Wii is a piece of sh*t. He went on to refer to it as 'two GameCubes stuck together with duct tape.' He also took Nintendo to task for not taking games seriously enough. 'It's not clear to me that Nintendo gives a s*** about games as an art form.'"

sony?

[Lehk228]

how much did sony have to pay him to say THAT?

I'm impressed

[robbywalker]

It must have been hard to build an industry changing motion sensing controller with spare GameCube parts and duct tape. Nintendo must have hired MacGyver!

At least they shipped something..

[QuantumG]

we're still waiting for Spore... of course, once you do ship, all is forgiven.. at least until I get bored with the game and wonder why there's no multiplayer (and don't give me that "asynchronous multiplayer" crap).

SS Sporetanic

[Reason58]

He then shared quotes from executives at Sony and Microsoft talking about games as a serious artistic medium, and then a quote from a Nintendo executive saying the company only wanted to make "fun" games.

"Rest assured," he went on to say, "we won't fall into the stupid design trap of making our game fun. We'll leave that for the amateurs at Nintendo."

"WhatEv"

[Private.Tucker]

He's just mad because they're selling like hotcakes and he can't make a game work on it.

Re:sony?

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck you, you shitcock deletionist.

Re:News At 11, Industry Insider Hates Nonconformis

[nuzak]

> GT is a simulation which tries to be realistic

Which is why when you hit the wall at 180MPH, you bounce right off.

Re:Can game developers be Divas?

[Doctor Faustus]

Pets? WTF?
I suspect that one's mostly for kids. My nine-year-old loves it.