id Software’s Steve Nix stated in a D.I.C.E. interview that he thinks the Wii is “fantastic” and that id is looking into bringing some of its recent past technology to the system as well as some of their brands. Supposedly, they would look better than any other game on the Wii! Check out a portion of the interview below:
BIZ: Carmack has been fairly vocal about his opinion on 360 vs. PS3, with the 360 supposedly being easier to develop for. What are your thoughts in general on all three systems (PS3, 360, Wii)?
SN: …The Wii is interesting. I think the Wii is fantastic. I think it’s great that Nintendo did something really unique with the control system. They’ve made it really more mass market friendly. Mouse and keyboard combinations or controllers can be baffling for people who haven’t played games since the Atari 2600. So I think what they did, the more intuitive they can make games for that system, that my mom can pick up and get into in 5 or 6 minutes, that’s fantastic and it’s necessary in growing the market. But where we’re at, since id’s always been about taking revolutionary steps in graphics technology, the Wii’s really not a great platform for that part of our strategy because there’s just not a lot of horsepower there. We’ve looked at what would make sense, some of our older technology, to get up and going on the Wii, because people have expressed interest in licensing tech from us that would be for Wii games, so we’re still figuring out how we can do that. Some of our brands could end up on the Wii. But our new stuff, the next-generation stuff we’re doing, there’s no way that it could run effectively on the Wii.
BIZ: You guys are obviously FPS specialists. If you look at what Nintendo is doing with Metroid Prime, you can just point and click at the screen, so that could apply very well to some of id’s properties. Are you saying that you’d only look to the older catalog to see if you could bring that to Wii?
SN: Or maybe some of our brands. We have a bunch of brands and maybe we’ll look at partnering with somebody with some of our older technology that really would push the limits of the Wii and look at our brands and which are appropriate. See which makes sense, and this version of our technology would look better than any other Wii game out there. We would modify it to make sure things made sense and add things in where possible, because the Wii is a fairly new graphics card, even if it’s no a very powerful machine. So there are things we could do to make it look great.
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