Dave Perry has said in an interview that the Wii’s popularity will eventually bow down to the graphical power of rival consoles. He predicts that when beautiful-looking games like Halo 3 come out (is that really the best example?), gamers will drop everything, even their Wii remotes, to play it. This coming from the guy who created Earthworm Jim.
He does give the Wii its due praise, however, in its efforts to return to a simple, easy-to-use interface. It’s not the last effort we’ll see, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
“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.”
