{"id":12838,"date":"2011-07-11T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"cliffyb-on-the-wii-u-s-haters-they-ll-talk-but-they-ll-buy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/12838-cliffyb-on-the-wii-u-s-haters-they-ll-talk-but-they-ll-buy-it","title":{"rendered":"CliffyB on the Wii U\u2019s haters: \u201cThey\u2019ll talk ****, but they\u2019ll buy it\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s the same law that dictates homophobic people are secretly gay &ndash; the more you hate on something, the more you probably want to try it out in a dingy public bathroom stall. More or less.<\/p>\n<p>So as Epic Games&rsquo; Cliff Bleszinski says, those people dissing the Nintendo Wii U are going to buy it regardless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From what I&rsquo;ve seen, it looks pretty cool,&rdquo;<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/12483-Bleszinski-Gears-War-will-not-Epics-final-legacy.html\" target=\"_self\"> the man who invented the chainsaw gun<\/a> tells<a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrygamers.com\/news\/gears-designer-nintendo-haters-will-talk-sht-but-will-still-buy-wii-u\/\" target=\"_self\"> IndustryGamers.<\/a> &ldquo;It seems like you can stream your game from your television directly to your [tablet] controller, so if you have irritable bowel syndrome, or a small bladder, you can still play it in the toilet. That&rsquo;s great. But, you know, from what people are saying online, they&rsquo;re like, &#8216;Oh, it&rsquo;s just a DreamCast, whatever.&#8217; But it&rsquo;s like, &#8216;Dude, what&rsquo;s old is new sometimes.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Power Glove [back on NES] led to the Wii, right? The Virtual Boy led to the 3DS, right? A lot of these older technologies that you forget about are [the technological predecessors]. The Kinect is a sophisticated webcam, right? So I&rsquo;m just dying to see it. It&rsquo;s Nintendo. I&rsquo;ll buy it. I know I&rsquo;ll buy it. They&rsquo;ll talk sh*t but they&rsquo;ll buy it,&#8221; he adds.<\/p>\n<p>The Wii U is expected to launch sometime next year.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/15536-%E2%80%9CThey%E2%80%99ll-talk-****-but-they%E2%80%99ll-buy-it%E2%80%9D-says-Cliffy-B-on-Gears-of-War-3-haters?p=473178#post473178\" target=\"_self\">Are you going to buy a Wii U <\/a><\/strong><\/span>&lt;&lt; share your thoughts in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The love which dare not speak its name<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xbox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838","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=12838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}