![]() Hecker’s reputation took a further beating in October 2008 when the word was spread that he was responsible for turning Spore away from its roots in evolutionary science in order to make it friendlier for more casual gamers. My Wikipedia page got defaced endlessly.” The Nintendo fanboys are pretty vehement. “The stars aligned in a completely negative, summon a demon kind of way. They were announcing a joint venture for the first time. “That night was the Electronic Arts and Nintendo executive dinner. It never used to be like that at GDC,” he said. “I wasn’t thinking that because E3 closed down there would be a lot of people sniffing around for news stories in the mainstream press. History has borne out the validity of his comments but Hecker said the situation caused him a considerable amount of grief that he really didn’t see coming. Nintendo made an underpowered platform, relative to what you could have made at the time.” “You can do more interesting games with a faster CPU. “Game design and gameplay is not separable from CPU power,” he said. Nintendo needs to be applauded for trying to interface on the controller front, the user.”īut now, three years later, Hecker told Eurogamer that he stands by his original point, if not his “inflammatory” wording. In 2007, Hecker got on stage at the Game Developers Conference and said something that made instant headlines: The Wii, he told his audience, was “a piece of shit.” In case anyone missed the point, he further described it as “two GameCubes duct-taped together.” The fallout came fast and furious, and by the next day he issued an apology, saying, “I do not think the Wii is a piece of shit. Chris Hecker, the former Maxis designer and engineer who famously described the Wii as “two GameCubes duct-taped together” and later became known as the man who ruined Spore, says he stands by his statement but wishes he’d phrased it a little more diplomatically. ![]()
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