No pressure, Nintendo. Co-founder of 22 Cans, Peter Molyneux, has upgraded his opinion about the Wii U from “unimpressed” to “mixed”. Speaking with Games Industry International, he said:
“I think the Wii U is good, but I don’t feel it’s great. I’ve played the experience, I’ve played Nintendo Land, I’ve played ZombiU, and they’re good. I find holding the device in my hand–looking up at the screen and looking down at the device–slightly confusing as a consumer. It’s good, but it’s not great.
“And we really need these new pieces of hardware to be great in today’s world, because the competition is not just consoles anymore. The competition is everything, all the technology. When you’re holding a Kindle Fire or an iPad in your hand, it’s just amazing technology. It really is. It’s expensive, but it’s amazing technology. And people like Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft need to match that. They need to match that in my mind, and exceed it. And I’m not sure the Wii U really did that.”
But even if Wii U doesn’t live up to the same success as its wildly popular predecessor, Molyneux has said that he still has faith in Nintendo, and he’s intrigued by the potential of asymmetric gameplay.
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Source: Games Industry
And Molineux needs to make an actual “great” game in order to criticize other products for not being “great”. oh goshh im so sick of this guy!