People say the darndest things and IGN is always listening. Here's a new selection of wisdom and weirdness from gaming folk over the past seven days. If this doesn't completely satisfy, you an navigate back to previous weeks' entries. As always, add your opinions on any of these issues in the Comments section. The best one will be featured in next week's column.
Akin to Porn
“Mainstream AAA videogames operate on principles akin to porn: highly repetitive activities premised on visceral pleasure and spectacle.”
Game designer Eric Zimmerman.
Kotaku
Dead Cat
"It's so amazing I think it will appear on news reports. Though it's not a dead cat, by the way."
Peter Molyneux announces his new game Curiosity, in which players chip away at a block, but only one finds the "life changing" prize at the center.
Eurogamer
Or They Will Fail
"Sony and Microsoft cannot let the retailers dictate game prices going forwards if they want to break free from the current over-priced model. Their next consoles, PlayStation 4 and Xbox 720, need to be digital only, or they will fail."
Kwalee CEO and Codemasters co-founder, David Darling.
Kwalee via GameSpot
Everyone is British
“One of the fun questions we get all the time is – are you only killing British people? And the actual answer to that is - yes, because before the end of the game there are no American people, so it’s a ridiculous question. Everyone is British, even the patriots.”
Assassin's Creed III's creative director Alex Hutchinson.
IGN
It’s Not True Innovation
“Y'know, at some point dinosaurs are the hottest thing and everyone is making games with dinosaurs, but there are trends. It used to be WWII, and recently it's been the modern era and people are now moving towards near future. But it's a bit cheap to just say, 'Okay, we're going to switch and go back in time or into the future and that will be innovation'. It will definitely drive the franchise forward for whatever game, but it's not true innovation, it's more a thematic change that has a perceived value to the gamers out there.”
DICE general manager Karl Magnus Troedsson lets off a few shots in the ongoing FPS wars.
Edge
This Industry Will Die
"This industry will die if it doesn't try more to be innovative and to come up with new ideas.”
Quantic Dream’s David Cage.
GamesIndustry
Differentiators in Graphics
"Other companies might launch a next-generation console with more power, but we don’t necessarily think that the difference between the Wii U and such console will be as drastic as what you felt it was between the Wii and the other consoles because there will be fewer and fewer differentiators in graphics.”
Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata.
IGN
Think of Graphical Capability
“They are building a platform that is effectively a 360 when you think of graphical capability."
Microsoft’s Phil Spencer talks Wii U.
GamesIndustry
Rich or Poor
"No company, rich or poor, will continue to fund projects that aren't profitable and have no hope of becoming profitable."
IGN reader phipee2 wades into the debate over studio closures.
IGN
Source : ign[dot]com
