The Wii Is A Piece Of Sh*t! (Spore Dev)

One of Spore’s developers rants about Nintendo’s “two GameCubes stuck together with duct tape.”

March 7, 2007 - During a session at GDC this morning titled ‘Burning Mad - Game Publishers Rant,’ time was taken about half way through to allow developers a chance to spew their own rants. One speaker, Chris Hecker, currently working on Spore at Maxis, took the opportunity to call out Nintendo for not taken games seriously.

“The Wii is a piece of shit!” Hecker began his talk, which was called “Fear of a Wii Planet.” He blasted a few bars of Public Enemy to set the tone. Hecker said the Wii is nothing more than two GameCubes stuck together with duct tape, and that the console isn’t powerful enough to provide the next-gen experience he has been waiting for.

Although he stated the system is “severely underpowered,” Hecker noted that he wasn’t simply referring to the Wii’s graphical capabilities. He wants to spend a console’s CPU making games more intelligent, and he has found the Wii doesn’t have the power to process things like complicated AI.

Hecker also took Nintendo to task for not taking games seriously enough. “It’s not clear to me that Nintendo gives a shit about games as an art form,” he said. To illustrate his point, he searched for references to games as art on all three console manufacturers web sites. While he found numerous such references on both the official PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 sites, Wii.com had none at all. 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.

Hecker ended his spirited rant with two demands for Nintendo: First, recognize and push games as serious art. And two, “make a console that doesn’t suck ass.”

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this guy can get on his knees, lick my balls, and scream for mercy as I beat his face in with a 2X4 with nails. if there’s one thing I hate more than misinformed nintendo fanboys, it’s misinformed PS3 and 360 fanboys.

I may never want to play spore because of him

wait… I take it back
I WANT spore to come to wii now more than anything so I can wave it in his face whilst I skin him and roll him in salt.

Is that guy a game designer???
What a hell does he do???
Or maybe he is a game tester.

…He must have a strange definition of the word “art.”If anything Nintendo has been on the front lines bringing different artistic styles to gaming since birth. I guess he hasn’t seen the art in upcoming games like Bleach or Naruto etc… He obviously didn’t see the games that are already out for Wii. The best Microsoft can do for “art” is Viva Pinata. Gears of War looked great(realistically) but it was very short, this would be “art” at a high price and small amount of playtime. I think his definition of “art” is the attempt to make realistic games and it shows because he chose the steroid consoles with outdated player interaction. Unfortunately for those who don’t have HD, Xbox360 and PS3 look less impressive on regular TVs which then you can see the lack of creativity in gameplay. WOW cool you can duck behind stuff in Gears of War and your character says “SHIT!”…Good one Microsoft… I dunno about you guys but im tired of the same ol’ “SHIT!” I want a different experience in gaming even if the graphics take a hit.

Every day I read an article or comment like this and know that I made the right choice when I bought my WII. I mean for pete’s sake the man had to resort to using expletives and bad (incorrect) analogies which basicly amount to “nintendo sucks because they want people to have fun with their [game] system. “

Must have a tiny dick…

(I’M TALKING ABOUT THE GUY FROM THE ARTICLE, NOT YOU MR. “OVER-100-HOURS-OF-METROID-AND-STILL-3-STAR)

i’m still shocked by this guy’s claims. now that nintendo has a 5 to 1 success over microsoft and sony, then guys like these come out. how sad is that?

he chose to do his game for 360 and decided not to back up the wii so, it’s his own fault he went for the wrong company. suffer the consequences jerk. besides… pc graphics are as good or better than any 360 or ps3… so why not just make spore a pc game also and stop your whining and immature comments torwards a company that doesn’t give a deuce about you?

well at least two gamecube dual cored would be more powerful!!!!!!!!

Seriously that guy is lame and should die for that crap.

If all the other systems are so much better then why is the wii far more sucessful?

Nintendo though the years has set the standard with grapics and and are work, Like supermario world on snes awsome graphics on a 16bit system. Then star fox one of the first 3d games. then farther after metroid pime set the standerds for all fps because befor it they all repeted texstures and iteams, but when it came out it made them make everything differnt in the game.

So when you say that a back staber aka “sony” and the perpetuall copy machene that takes all pc games to their system aka”microsoft ,xbox and 360″ are better
I WILL FART IN YOU GENERAL DIRECTION AND CAUSE YOU TO GET KNOCKED OUT.

CAUSE NINTENDO ALWAYS SETS THE STANDARD FOR ALMOST EVERY THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AGGHHHH….I hate people that talk shit about other consoles, especially if they have never played them or have played little of them…