Will Wright on the next-gen consoles

[Fash]

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?optio ... 1&Itemid=2

“Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii – the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement,” Wright told Guardian Unlimited.

“But the Wii feels like a major jump – not that the graphics are more powerful, but that it hits a completely different demographic. In some sense I see the Wii as the most significant thing that's happened, at least on the console side, in quite a while.”

Wright notes that he doesn’t begrudge shooters and games of that ilk, but his inherent creative nature leads to him spending more time playing innovative titles, primarily on Wii and DS when it comes to consoles. He says he has an “Xbox 360 collecting dust” at home, “a Wii hooked up that we use quite a bit,” while he doesn’t own a PS3.

At heart though, Wright says he is a PC man. “I still, for the most part, prefer playing games on the computer – to me the mouse is the best input device ever. Every generation it's like ‘the PC's dead! The PC's dead!’. But it carries on growing when consoles are flat for five years. At the moment I can get better graphics on my PC than I can on the PS3.”

[Winnow]

I didn't know who Will Wright was before clicking on the link.

Never liked the Sims games and Spore is looking like a repetitive mess. Based on what he's done in the past, his thoughts wouldn't influence what console is most "next gen". He's entitled to his opinion though!

[Niffoni]

Wright is great and all, but arguing what counts as next-gen as if your position can be viewed as hard fact is kind of silly. The phrase really has no meaning, except when used to bait fanboys.. and I kinda thought such an influential figure would be above that sort of nonsense.