This post is about any one specific game. It's just a rant by some Sega exec. that I felt was necessary to post.
"I am a little concerned about the creative depth of the Wii pool. I'm not sure if they will top out in 2008 or 2007," said Scott Steinberg, VP of marketing for the U.S. unit of Sega Sammy Holdings Inc. "The Wii will start to look really dated in a couple years when developers get more value from the 360 and learn more and more about the PlayStation 3."
Listen, Sega is about the LAST company Nintendo needs to get console advice from. It's also ironic that Sonic sold a lot better on Wii than it did on PS3 and Xbox360 combined. ZING!
Read the rest of the interview here.
UPDATE: Looks like the legions of Nintendo fanboys scared Sega into issuing a follow up statement to the Reuters interview.
SEGA has fully supported the Wii since day one and we continue to do so - it's no secret that we are close partners. Nintendo has done a masterful job of selling its vision and expanding the market. That said, it's a shared responsibility and opportunity for the whole industry to take advantage of the possibilities of the Wii. If we don't realize its true potential, we will have missed a great opportunity to expand creatively and that is what I was cautioning against in the Reuters interview. I'm not just putting the responsibility of innovation on Nintendo. It's on SEGA and all the publishers and developers as well to carry that flag.
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Sega Megadrive ah those were the days .. Streets of Rage, Sonic, Ecco, Desert Strike etc.
Ecco the Dolphin was AWESOME. It was one of my first purchases on Nintendo Virtual Console. You know, I still haven't beaten the game.
Pretty sure I finished the original but that was a long time ago. Had great graphics for the time and pointlessly flipping on the surface was great fun.