Epic Games Hates the Wii

IGN: What do you think of the Wii and Nintendo's…

Capps: Pffffffffft…

IGN: (laughter) I know! I think the same thing! It's like, "Come on, why are you buying this system?!"

Capps: I know. I've got one.

IGN: Everybody does! Bring it out at parties and everyone's like, "Oh it's a Wii!"

Capps: Part of it's being cheap. I think it's a, I mean, so two things: first of all, great credit to them. The first time I played a videogame with my parents – aging myself a bit – was on Atari 2600. The next time I played a videogame with my parents, 25 years later or whatever, was Wii Tennis. So it's about bringing people together, families, Thanksgiving, all that. I think it's kind of like a weird virus because I have not yet found a reason to play with my Wii since then.

IGN: Exactly. For a real gaming experience…

Capps: Right, Zelda I really didn't enjoy on it. They back-fitted the control scheme on it, it was better on the GameCube. Mario, I wish there had been a button instead of wiggle and all that kind of shit. So I haven't played anything that I really wished hadn't been on another platform sadly enough. It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, "Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it." So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. Obviously there's a class of people who really love it and enjoy it and are getting into the games but I'm still waiting for that one game that makes me play it. Who knows, maybe Wii Fit will be it.

IGN: Is there any chance that Epic will ever, is there going to be a point where there are too many Wiis on the market for you guys to not make a game for it?

Capps: No, we go forward, not back. It makes more sense for us to invest in the next-generation tech. There have been shops that have done it. Red Steel was a launch title and that was on Unreal Engine. So it's been done. How you take an engine that's all based on shaders and materials and run it on hardware that doesn't support shaders is just impossible. It's about as easy as PSP for us. Maybe it would make sense, but it makes more sense to invest going forward.

The above is an interview between Ign's Nate Ahearn and Epic Games' President Mike Capps, and although it sounds like a couple of teenage fanboys talking about games it isn't. Sadly. 

Obviously Epic Games isn't afraid or embarrassed to be so openly fanboyish and to talk trash about the Wii, but I guess Capps thinks that doing so will win him points with his audience. What's inexcusable though is the IGN interviewer who joins in on the Wii bashing fun instead of just asking questions.

Also adding to his idiotic Wii comments, Capps lies about the Wii's capabilities in saying that it can't do shaders. It can, and games have already used them.

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