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Mark Rein has clarified to VG247 his stance on making games for Wii, stating that Silicon Valley Insider misquoted his remarks regarding the system during his interview with IndustryGamers.
According to Rein, he never said nor implied that designing games for Wii was a waste, just that it’s not Epic’s specialty.
“The kind of games we make just would not work well on Wii,” he told VG247. “With our high-end engine, making a game work on Wii would spread our resources too thin and cause us to lose focus.
“Hardcore games have been hit or miss on Wii. Some have done well, some have not and we would not expect Gears or any of our games to sell well on the system. Games like Madden are great, especially since the developer designed a user interface specifically for Wii, but again, doing something like that would take up resources we are using to make other titles.
“Again, I never said making games for Wii was a waste. There are some great games for it, but it’s just not for us.”
Here’s a link to the original post, which has been fixed to accommodate this new information.
Silicon Valley Insider has also updated its original post.
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ecu said:
To be fair, you kind of deserved this. The original headline was a bit provocative.
Stephany Nunneley said:
To be fair, I just paraphrased the source. Mark is a VERY nice man and I had a long lovely chat with him, and he does not blame us in the slightest.
Hunam said:
Did you get phone call from him? You know you’ve made it in the industry when Mark Rein gives you a ring. Even I think don’t agree with anything he says ever or the way he says it.
Razor said:
No way, you’ve only made it when Ken Kutaragi presonally gives you a ring, although admittedly that might be quite hard to provoke these days.
Hunam said:
Who would want a phone call from third place?
Michael O'Connor said:
“Who would want a phone call from third place?
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Better than getting a call from Second Life.
Hunam said:
I just realised I could have put (the) in front of third for punarific effect, I have failed, my mother will be so displeased with me now.