The famous American game designer McGee recently questioned Sony and Microsoft's strategy on the next generation of hosts in an interview with reporters. He said that although both Microsoft and Sony have invested a lot of money on the next generation of hosts, he personally believes that only Nintendo's Wii is truly the next generation of hosts.
McGee once developed an alternative action game called the rocky disaster for the Xbox platform, and is currently preparing for the shooting of Disney's animated films. When talking about competition among the three generations of hosts, he said: "Only the Wii is regarded as the real next generation host. Other hosts are only upgraded on the graphics card and CPU processor ."
McGee also said that only Nintendo has made innovations in the development of the next generation of hosts, So he believes that Nintendo is very eager to gain consumer recognition and ultimately achieve success. He said: "I think Nintendo can accurately grasp the players' psychology, and Sony and Microsoft's actions to compete for the market can only result in both losses. Nintendo focuses on innovation and game development, while executives of Sony and Microsoft only care about how to maximize profits ."
McGee admitted that his views on Sony and Microsoft may be somewhat extreme, but he believes that only Nintendo truly touched the essence of video games. At the same time, he also pointed out that Microsoft and Sony are persistently competing with each other and have spent a lot of energy upgrading cold hardware, instead of developing Outstanding game works that truly resonate with players.
McGee's point of view indeed represents the views of some industry professionals and players, but after all Nintendo and Sony and Microsoft have chosen a completely different path in their next generation host strategy. There are no right or wrong commercial operations. Only continuous profit creation is the final principle for the survival of an enterprise. The success or failure of the next generation of host wars is determined by the market and players.