Top 10 Game Executive gaffe quotes

10.) Kudo Tsunoda - Microsoft Game Studios: “Halo did an awesome job of building a first-person shooter exclusively for the console, and now hardly anyone plays first-person shooters on the PC anymore...”

9.) Ken Kutaragi, Sony Computer Entertainment: "I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architect's blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It's the same as that."

8.) Jack Tretton, Sony Computer Entertainment: "If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1200 bucks for it."

7.) Ken Kutaragi - Sony Computer Entertainment: [PS3 is] “for consumers to think to themselves ‘I will work more hours to buy one’. We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else.”

6.) Dave McLean, Microsoft Game Studios Australia: "Gaming's not just for sweaty thirty year-olds in Metallica t-shirts."

5.) Mark Pincus, Zynga: "I don't ... want innovation. You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."

4.) Robert "Bobby" Kotick, Activision: "The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games."

3.) Laurent Fischer, Nintendo of Europe: "Only geeks and otaku need [additional memory storage on the Wii] "

2.) Phil Harrison - Sony Computer Entertainment: "I believe that the Sixaxis controller offers game designers and developers far more opportunity for future innovation than rumble ever did. Now, rumble I think was the last generation feature; it's not the next-generation feature. I think motion sensitivity is. And we don't see the need to do that. Having said that, there will be specific game function controllers, potentially like steering wheels that do include vibration or feedback function -- not from us but from third parties."

1.) Peter Moore - Microsoft Game Studios: [in response to question on Red Ring of Death] "You know, things break."

EA fires back at Kotick about his comments on EA.

Jeff Brown, EA's vice president of communications, didn't hold back when asked for comment, slinging mud at Activision's Guitar Hero, Call of Duty, and World of Warcraft franchises in the process.


     "Kotick's relationship with studio talent is well documented in litigation," Brown said, referring to Activision's latest lawsuit with developer Infinity Ward over the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare franchise and previously with Double Fine over Brutal Legend.


     "His company is based on three game franchises – one is a fantastic persistent world he had nothing to do with; one is in steep decline; and the third is in the process of being destroyed by Kotick's own hubris."

You would think that these companies would just let the legal department get on with their shit in private.

I read what Kotick said about Schafer and it was fairly professional with no insults, at least.

We should start insulting other posters from other boards, but only exchange messages once every month or so.

robio said:

We should start insulting other posters from other boards, but only exchange messages once every month or so.

Which site gets to report the message?

Dvader said:

robio said:

We should start insulting other posters from other boards, but only exchange messages once every month or so.

Which site gets to report the message?

We could let Gamespot do it, but they'd sit on the story for an extra 3 weeks.

I played the Vanquish demo a few days ago. It was boring.

Dvader said:

Wait this month Castlevania, Enslaved, Star Wars Force Unleashed 2, Vanquish, Kirby, and Fallout New Vegas all come out. Holy shit.

I can wait on Fallout. Kirby, SW, Enslaved are all rentals.  Vanquish I want to own to help out Platinum games and cause I think its awesome, of course I dont have the money to do so. So do I wait till I get money to buy it or rent it and probably never own it (I dont like owning what I rented). Castlevania I may have to rent. Obviously I need my PS3 fixed first which I may do soon. By fix I mean I open it and do it myself.

SteelAttack said:

I played the Vanquish demo a few days ago. It was boring.

You are boring!

From the NBA Elite thread on gaf:

Go to 2:20.