{"id":10715,"date":"2011-03-16T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T10:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ea-calls-wii-a-legacy-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10715-ea-calls-wii-a-legacy-platform","title":{"rendered":"EA calls Wii a \u201clegacy platform\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

And today’s Epic Diss of the Day goes out to EA’s Frank Gibeau, who has bravely declared the Wii a “legacy platform” alongside the PS2, recklessly inviting the wrath of Super Mario Bros players all over the planet.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Industry Gamers<\/a>, Gibeau says that “When you look at Nintendo, for a while there it was all about the Wii being the biggest entertainment platform ever and capturing the mass market. Now, they’re coming back with a second act. I think they know that. They’re very self-aware as an organization and a very powerful brand.”<\/p>\n

He goes on to explain that HD is now where the industry’s at, before dropping the diss-bomb with, “Legacy platforms like PS2 and the Wii have dropped off significantly. They’re not stupid. They’re going to figure something out. They’re going to come back at it.”<\/p>\n

Rumour has it Nintendo is prepping a Wii 2 announcement for E3, but you didn’t hear that from me. Unless it’s true, obviously. In which case, you read it here first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BUUUUURN!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}