Dave Perry keeps on talking.

In a new interview with GameSpot:

GS: You mentioned the Wii as a disruptive innovation in the gaming industry, and Jamil drew a parallel to digital cameras essentially making old Polaroids all but obsolete. Do you think traditional games are actually going to be hurt by the Wii’s success?

DP: To carry the analogy forward, I think if Nintendo keeps innovating this way and nobody else does, it could spell doom and gloom for [those who don’t innovate]. They’re reacting. They’re not just sitting back. The concern was price as well. Prices were very high, but they’re realizing that and they’re trying to get the prices down. They’re also adding on more and more features, like the EyeToy, the Xbox Vision camera, that keyboard so you can type on the controller…

But nobody’s going to be able to respond to it this time around. The question is what happens next time around. Are they going to ignore [the Wii] like it never happened and just keep the arms race going? Or are they going to try to play the Nintendo game, which is to go for the mass market? That’s going to be where the answer happens. If Nintendo somehow keeps going in this direction–if they innovate yet again and surprise us all again–that could be bad. That could be very unhealthy for everybody else.

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  • Hologram

    Summary of Dave Perry:
    “How dare Nintendo do something new? How dare they make us innovate? It’s just so horrible that Nintendo is bringing much needed change to the industry and now we’re going to have to innovate to keep up. How dare they?!?”

    :)

  • Faeker

    I don’t believe that DP was being as negative towards Nintendo as he sounds from both parts of the interview. I think that he’s just pointing out that that the Wii was needed and that it’s made the other two company’s realize that they may have lost touch with what the people want. Sure, he sounded negative, but it seems as if he was praising the Wii without so many words.

  • Hologram

    No, he dislikes Nintendo. Check out these comments from previous interviews (tried to post links but that comment didn’t go through):

    “The graphical power of the 360 and PS3 are essential to them attracting the Wii’s user base. The fact is, gamers are attracted to beautiful looking games.

    When a game comes out – a game like a Halo or something, something they haven’t seen before – they’ll drop everything and they’ll drop their Wii controllers when it does.”

    AKA Gamers are like crows. “Shiny!”

    “That’s truly disruptive. I got sort of killed in the press recently because I said people are going to put their Wii-motes down when they start to play all the new stuff on PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It wasn’t dismissive at all. Nintendo has disrupted our industry; they’ve done a fantastic job of that. My point is the games I personally like to play–Assassin’s Creed and Killzone 2–I have a list full of them and none of them are on the Wii.”

    AKA The Wii has no good games (overlooking the twenty/thirty odd games coming down the line)

    “What we see at the moment is companies adding more and more complexity to a game’s input, which is the wrong direction games are going in.

    The model for the Wii interface is clearly working, Nintendo took buttons off their controller, and that didn’t make it impossible to make games for it. There’s like seventeen different buttons on a PlayStation 3 controller.

    I think we’ll always see more and more interesting approaches to interface, and I really don’t think the Wii is the ultimate solution to that.”

    This one can go in one of two ways: A.) The Wii is good and better than the PS3 controller but could be better still or B.) More complicated interfaces like slashing instead of pushing buttons or rotating to steer are dumb.

    Looking positively, he means the first but with his earlier anti-Wii rhetoric… I dunno.

    In summary:
    Dave Perry doesn’t like the Wii. All comments made by him should be viewed in this light. By viewing the above comment in said light, you’ll see what I see, a person complaining that the Wii forces “unwanted” innovation.

  • Gameking

    Wow Dave Perry is a a failure fanboy.Ps3 already lossing xbox360 too. but they r a:l ggod

  • Gameking

    They are all good.

  • Faeker

    thanks for the “links” Holo. In light of those snippits, DP definitely has Wii issues. I think he’s sulking now. BAD FANBOY, BAD!!!