Will Wright quotes

Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement. (Will Wright)

It almost feels like a zombie at this point; it's the walking dead. It's such an abrupt end to what was E3, which had been this huge escalating arms race.... Right now we're in this kind of dicey, do we have an event, what event is it, which one do we go to? I think we're in an uncomfortable transition zone when really the real E3 died a couple of years ago.

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I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.

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And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

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Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!

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A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

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In a movie, one can always pull back and condemn the character or the artist when they cross certain social boundaries. But in playing a game, we choose what happens to the characters. In the right circumstances, we can be encouraged to examine our own values by seeing how we behave within virtual space.

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On vacation, I totally unplug. I don't bring a laptop with me.

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The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

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Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge benefits.

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I typically go overboard when I research new projects. (Will Wright)

It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

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Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

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The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.

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In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

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Everybody has a different definition of the good side.

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I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

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Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

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And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

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We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

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Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license. (Will Wright)