Reality's Fringe
03-14-2006, 09:53 PM
Thought this was pretty sweet. It's a list of the top ten balls-out dumbass things said by some of the oldest members of the game industry: *Please note that, despite the Moniker of "Wildest", no one takes their shirt off in the article =( http://ds.ign.com/articles/695/695790p1.html
For those who want the gist of it:
10) Peter Moore's Lucid Dream
"Next generation games will combine unprecedented audio and visual experiences to create worlds that are beyond real and they'll deliver storylines and gameplay so compelling that it will feel like living a lucid dream. The result is a state where you achieve the perfect mind-body equilibrium as you forget your physical surroundings and you become completely immersed in the game itself; this controller becomes an extension of your body, it becomes the gateway to the Zen of gaming."
9)Trip's New Printing Press
"[PS2 is…] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did."
8) Iwata Doesn't Want Online Games
"Customers do not want online games."
7) Yamauchi on Microsoft
"There are many people in the industry that know nothing about games. In particular, a large American company is trying to do engulf software houses with money, but I don't believe that will go well. It looks like they'll sell their game system next year, but we'll see the answer to that the following year."
6) Kutaragi's Outrageous Boast(s)
"You can communicate to a new cybercity. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix!" (a few more in the article)
5) Kelly Flock Talks Liquid AI
"Liquid AI is the crap that ran down [EA's] leg when they saw GameDay."
4) Yamauchi's RPG Hate
"[People who play RPGs are] depressed gamers who like to sit alone in their dark rooms and play slow games[...]"
3) Koster Rips Single-Player Games
""The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal."
2) Trip's "Whoops" on Polygons
"Sony have had a graphic workstation business; they understand polygon rendering and have special customers that demand it. But I think when Sony come to market they might discover that they've underestimated how important traditional cell animation is and overrated the importance of polygon rendering."
1) Yamauchi Knows Gamers
"I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the videogame business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies."
They got some nice ones, but they missed a ton of them too. It seems most come from former Nintendo President Yamauchi, but that's what happens when a 600 year old man runs a game business. There's more quotes and some contextual info in the article, so I suggest you read it.
For those who want the gist of it:
10) Peter Moore's Lucid Dream
"Next generation games will combine unprecedented audio and visual experiences to create worlds that are beyond real and they'll deliver storylines and gameplay so compelling that it will feel like living a lucid dream. The result is a state where you achieve the perfect mind-body equilibrium as you forget your physical surroundings and you become completely immersed in the game itself; this controller becomes an extension of your body, it becomes the gateway to the Zen of gaming."
9)Trip's New Printing Press
"[PS2 is…] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did."
8) Iwata Doesn't Want Online Games
"Customers do not want online games."
7) Yamauchi on Microsoft
"There are many people in the industry that know nothing about games. In particular, a large American company is trying to do engulf software houses with money, but I don't believe that will go well. It looks like they'll sell their game system next year, but we'll see the answer to that the following year."
6) Kutaragi's Outrageous Boast(s)
"You can communicate to a new cybercity. Did you see the movie The Matrix? Same interface. Same concept. Starting from next year, you can jack into The Matrix!" (a few more in the article)
5) Kelly Flock Talks Liquid AI
"Liquid AI is the crap that ran down [EA's] leg when they saw GameDay."
4) Yamauchi's RPG Hate
"[People who play RPGs are] depressed gamers who like to sit alone in their dark rooms and play slow games[...]"
3) Koster Rips Single-Player Games
""The single-player game is a strange mutant monster which has only existed for 21 years and is about to go away because it is unnatural and abnormal."
2) Trip's "Whoops" on Polygons
"Sony have had a graphic workstation business; they understand polygon rendering and have special customers that demand it. But I think when Sony come to market they might discover that they've underestimated how important traditional cell animation is and overrated the importance of polygon rendering."
1) Yamauchi Knows Gamers
"I have been saying this for some time, but customers are not interested in grand games with higher-quality graphics and sound and epic stories. Only people who do not know the videogame business would advocate the release of next-generation machines when people are not interested in cutting-edge technologies."
They got some nice ones, but they missed a ton of them too. It seems most come from former Nintendo President Yamauchi, but that's what happens when a 600 year old man runs a game business. There's more quotes and some contextual info in the article, so I suggest you read it.