Mike Capps labels Wii a "virus"

[Shrygue]

via Games Industry


Mike Capps, president of Epic Games, has described the Wii as a "virus" in an interview with IGN, and given his explanation for Nintendo's success with the console.

During the interview, he admitted to buying one of Nintendo's consoles but said he rarely played with it, and complained that the few games he liked would be better on other consoles.

"I think it's kind of like a weird virus because I have not yet found a reason to play with my Wii," he said, reflecting on his decision to buy the console.

"It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends," he theorised. "So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then go out and buy it and so on."

His comments come after the latest set of data from the NPD Group shows that Nintendo sold more than 720,000 Wii consoles in March, its highest monthly sales total ever outside of the holiday months of November and December.

[____anders____]

then what games did he play?

probably minigames, prob. not super mario galaxy or SSBB or mario kart..

[curlycail]

I see what he means, that happened to me, i got one, and then all my friends did, and they dont play it any more really. I went through a period of not using mine.

[telnaur]

the graphics kinda suck on the wii but I think the selling feature is the novelty in the controllers.... I could get into playing the wii more often if I had the time... I think hes approached the wii in the wrong frame of mind.