{"id":65849,"date":"2014-06-15T10:40:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T08:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=65849"},"modified":"2014-06-15T10:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T08:44:31","slug":"gaming-big-wigs-who-lost-their-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/65849-gaming-big-wigs-who-lost-their-cool","title":{"rendered":"Gaming big-wigs who lost their cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every once in a while we hear about those in the gaming industry\u00a0who are not too pleased with how their games are turning out, how a competitor&#8217;s game is turning out, or how life, in general is turning out. Here is what happens when these guys\u00a0lose their cool.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Don Mattrick: Don\u2019t have internet? Then don\u2019t buy an Xbox One<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cFortunately, we have a product for people who aren\u2019t able to get some form of connectivity, it\u2019s called the Xbox 360.\u201d The insensitive comment from Microsoft clearly showed their intentions for the Xbox One at the time, with their &#8220;Always On&#8221; feature one of the console&#8217;s selling points.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jzmVcasl3ZU?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Reggie Fils-Aime: Do not copy us, it\u2019s embarrassing<\/h3>\n<p>Reggie might represent one of the most innocent gaming companies in the world, but that doesn\u2019t mean he is an innocent, care-free guy. After the reveal of Microsoft\u2019s Kinect and Sony\u2019s PlayStation Move, Reggie lashed out at the companies over the existence of the hardware. \u201cI think we would be embarrassed to do what our competitors are currently doing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Gc5cuekQto?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Chris Hecker: The Wii is a piece of s***<\/h3>\n<p>Spore developer Chris Hecker had a good old rant at the 2007 GDC, stating that the Wii was a piece of garbage that Nintendo should improve so it does &#8220;not suck ass&#8221;. He also blasted Nintendo for not taking games seriously, and not treating games as a form of art.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Peter Molyneux: Fable is better than The Elder Scrolls<\/h3>\n<p>During a hands-on demo with Fable 2, Peter went on about how amazing his game was, comparing it to Oblivion and how it was an improvement on The Elder Scrolls.\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s amazing for a role playing game, because most role playing games are s***. Oblivion was a great game, but the combat was rubbish,&#8221; he said. Let\u2019s just say that this little rant was expected from him, he does think he is the God of Gaming after all.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Kazuo Harai: The Wii is not a console<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;It is difficult to talk about Nintendo, because we don\u2019t look at their console as being a competitor,&#8221; said Harai in 2009, adding that Sony was, and would remain, number 1 in the console war. Unfortunately for Harai, Nintendo was ahead of Sony at the time in terms of console sales &#8211; awkward.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/65821-e3s-best-sports-titles-put-on-show.html\">E3\u2032s best sports titles put on show<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/65905-battlefield-hardline-will-sa-get-dedicated-servers.html\">Battlefield Hardline \u2013 will SA get dedicated servers?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/65911-gta-5-on-ps4-better-than-pc-and-xbox-one.html\">GTA 5 on PS4 better than PC and Xbox One?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the pressure of being in the video game industry becomes too much, and you have to let off a little steam&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":213,"featured_media":65967,"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":[20],"tags":[12587,21],"class_list":["post-65849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-game-developers","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65849","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\/213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65965,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65849\/revisions\/65965"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}