Peter Molyneux Sounds Off On Wii U: “Good But Not Great”

<p>Industry legend&comma; Peter Molyneux spoke with <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamesindustry&period;biz&sol;articles&sol;2012-11-29-molyneux-on-wii-u-good-but-not-great">Games Industry International<&sol;a> recently and when questioned about Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s new console&comma; the Wii U&comma; had some interesting things to say&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;The following quotation is from <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamesindustry&period;biz&sol;articles&sol;2012-11-29-molyneux-on-wii-u-good-but-not-great">Games Industry International<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;ve played the experience&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve played Nintendo Land&comma; I&&num;8217&semi;ve played ZombiU&comma; and they&&num;8217&semi;re good&period; I find holding the device in my hand &&num;8211&semi; looking up at the screen and looking down at the device &&num;8211&semi; slightly confusing as a consumer&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s good&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s not great&period; And we really need these new pieces of hardware to be great in today&&num;8217&semi;s world&comma; because the competition is not just consoles anymore&period; The competition is everything&comma; all the technology&period; When you&&num;8217&semi;re holding a Kindle Fire or an iPad in your hand&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s just amazing technology&period; It really is&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s expensive&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s amazing technology&period; And people like Nintendo&comma; Sony&comma; and Microsoft need to match that&period; They need to match that in my mind&comma; and exceed it&period; And I&&num;8217&semi;m not sure the Wii U really did that&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It&&num;8217&semi;s interesting to note what Peter Molyneux says&comma; especially regarding the three console manufacturers keeping up with tablet technology whilst I would personally question if the Wii U &&num;8220&semi;doesn&&num;8217&semi;t exceed it&&num;8221&semi; with all of its bells and whistles&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8230&semi; He is right if we&&num;8217&semi;re talking about loading times mind&&num;8230&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamesindustry&period;biz&sol;articles&sol;2012-11-29-molyneux-on-wii-u-good-but-not-great">Games Industry International<&sol;a> via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendolife&period;com&sol;news&sol;2012&sol;11&sol;molyneux&lowbar;wii&lowbar;u&lowbar;is&lowbar;good&lowbar;but&lowbar;its&lowbar;not&lowbar;great">Nintendo Life&rsqb;<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;