October 27, 2005
Epic VP Bashes Nintendo
A Epic VP bashes Nintendo, Sony, EA, and Activision. Nintendo for being an also-ran in console market, Sony because of its crappy controller, and EA/Activision for whining about larger project teams and budgets required in next-generation development. Epic sure is in the gaming press these days, lately because they are miffed about the growth of the used games market. That's what happens when you are a small studio amongst big publishers.
"Don't kid yourself - you're going to see more gimmicky, crappy, cheap, I-wish-I-hadn't-bought-it gimmick games based around that controller than you can ever possibly imagine. "I guarantee you there's going to be lots of people who say the whole reason for this game is this controller, we made the perfect game for the controller. And all it'll be is about the controller, and not necessarily a great game."
"I don't think anybody knows what the PlayStation 3 controller looks like," he said. "I think we all sure as hell pray like hell it's not that stupid-looking thing they showed at E3."
"I've heard EA and Activision make absolutely ridiculous statements about, 'Oh, it's going to take 30 million dollars to make a game and we need 300 people - that's just a bunch of bullsh--. "They're just covering up for their own management and incompetence. Or mismanagement I should say. "Our team size is only about 50 per cent higher than it was last generation, and we're making fantastic games. Gears of War [Epic's forthcoming Xbox 360 title] is only about 25 people, and that's smaller than most current-generation game teams."
