Post by leunas on Aug 16, 2006 3:14:17 GMT -5
"I think Nintendo, with the Wii console, is going to be right back up in the thick of it. It's quite interesting that they've decided not to go head-to-head with Microsoft and Sony, with the high quality interactive cinematic action adventure games; they've gone for gameplay over graphics instead. I think that's quite an interesting move and it could be very successful for them." Ian Livingstone
Just who is Ian and why is he important enough to be quoted? Ian Livingstone founded Games Workshop and distributed Dungeons & Dragons role-playing games, he's also written quite a lot of successful Fighting Fantasy gamebooks. Videogaming-wise, he used to be the major investor and board member of Eidos Interactive, the company that gave us Tomb Raider.
Now he's back as SCi's (the company that bought Eidos Interactive) Product Acquisition Director. He was just awarded the Order of the British Empire's "Services to the Computer Games Industry." So we guess he knows his games pretty much don't you think?
As far as we know he supports all three major game consoles, but (as was quoted above) he sees Nintendo coming back up from the edge of near-extinction and becoming a major player. Ian sees his company's games in the same way as Wii does with its console: gameplay and innovation.
Cinematic graphics is important but the heart and soul of the game depends on how well it plays and its uniqueness from other games. Without them, the game just becomes simply a copycat of a successful formula. As game companies see this as the eventual evolution of gaming, expect to see more creative games in the future from ALL consoles (and the lamb will sit beside the lion...) Amen.
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