Games developer Chris Hecker has now praised Nintendo's innovative motion-sensing controller
Wii critic backtracks on 'piece of s**t' comment
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12 Mar 2007, Tom Sanders in California , V3
Games developer Chris Hecker has retracted statements made last week at the Game Developer Conference when he referred to Nintendo's Wii gaming console as "a piece of s**t".
Hecker is a developer on the forthcoming Spore that was thought up by The Sims creator Will Wright. It will be published by Electronic Arts (EA).
"In an [unintelligible] panel I said a bunch of things. I was trying to be thought-provoking and entertaining and fun and a lot of the stuff went too far over the top on the entertaining and fun side, so that it was no longer thought-provoking, just inflammatory," Hecker is reported as saying in the Kotaku gaming blog.
"In the process I hurt a bunch of people I care about. And so, I want to apologise now. When I'm on stage, I'm me. I'm talking talk from me. I'm not representing EA or Maxis."
Hecker had dismissed the Wii as "two GameCubes and some duct tape", and flamed Nintendo for failing to consider video games as an art form.
In his apology, he applauded Nintendo's innovative motion-sensing controller which allows operation of items ranging from swords to tennis rackets. He also patted the developer on the back for creating an inexpensive device.
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Do you agree?
What?!?
If he thought it was resonably priced and innovative, why would he downgrade it? Sounds like he realized that bashing the number one selling console can only be harmful to a third party developer like him.
Posted by JP, 13 Mar 2007
nice backtrack
Since Spore is going to be a title for the Nintendo Wii, and Hecker works for EA Games, the main developer for Spore, I can see why he would retract his comments. His position within EA must be quite high, or else for making a comment like that against nintendo, he would have been fired.
Posted by nevermas, 13 Mar 2007