In an upcoming interview with CVG, PopCap founder John Vechey had derided the majority of console games, claiming that they substitute complexity with depth. Vechey also praised Nintendo for its innovation with the Wii and addressed the reason why PopCap hasn't released a Wii title yet.
Pictured: John Vechey
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
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What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
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"It's arrogant to say, but I think that most of the games on the Xbox and PC aimed at hardcore gaming add complexity but they don't actually have depth." (c) John Vechey
Very-very-very interesting statement(and related not only to XBOX, but also to PS3, Wii and PC). We have complexity, but we have no depth. It's a reason why last few years I am almost stopping playing seriously. Games are either old or shallow. And personally I do not believe in reborn of games with deep gameplay. Time is over. Now I am playing for fun, for easy fun.
This interview is dripping with irony. The founder of PopCap games, home of tons of shallow time wasters, says that console games lack depth. (Which he defines as "extra characters and extra powerups"). He then praises the Wii based on the controller (I'm assuming he isn't saying the Wii has tons of titles with "depth", because that would be funny.)
IF im understanding him right. but i could be wrong.
The title imply all games, the quote "most of the games" does not.
He actually says most console and PC games have no depth, even the so-called "hardcore" ones.