Todd Hollenshead: Third-party Wii Development Not Justified
April 14, 2009 by srfto
In an interview given exclusively to Gamespot, Todd Hollenshead, id CEO, said he hasn’t heard a good argument for “independent, Wii-centric” development. When asked about the Wii’s meteoric sales and success that could inevitably mean a shift towards third-party development for that platform, he briefly replied saying
If you look at the data, the Wii is Nintendo—and then
everybody else. And then among everybody else, it’s licensed
properties – and then stuff that people lose money on. So,
for a really original, game-centric IP, if you’re a third-party
developer, I would say, “Show me what makes such a compelling
case for the Wii.
He also said he does not ridicules Nintendo, nor the platform, but Wii is not for the type of games they make.
We celebrate it, we love the Wii, but it’s not for the type of games we make. I think that sometimes people lose sight of the fact that almost every company doesn’t try to be all things to all people. Nintendo isn’t trying to be all things to all people either. They have a great console with the Wii, they make great games. But they’re really not trying to push the graphics envelope. They’re doing other things.
Let’s hope that The Conduit, which will be released by the end of this year, will prove to a be a worthy title that will open up a path for other ID Software games for the WIi.
The entire interview can be read here.
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