Welcoming Our New Sweatshop Overlords, Part III: Media Molecule's Alex Evans On the Complex Power of Simple Tools

re: Welcoming Our New Sweatshop Overlords, Part III: Media Molecule's Alex Evans On the Complex Power of Simple Tools

Jesse Bramhall — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:40:53 GMT

Wow! Makes me think that Nintendo should have made Wii Music the Youtube of music games. If you don't want to use the controller, just plug in your guitar, write something up, and share it with your friends. Animal Crossing and Wii Music file sharing was a missed opportunity too.

Great business philosophy, so many ideas not being implemented.

re: Welcoming Our New Sweatshop Overlords, Part III: Media Molecule's Alex Evans On the Complex Power of Simple Tools

Jesse Bramhall — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:50:17 GMT

I know that there's a minor amount of that going on in Wii Music too, but from my understanding the game requires virtually no skill. The game's going to be huge, but I don't think Nintendo's caught on to just how huge social online software could be for them. One quirky little title that lets you do something creative with friends and the Wii's the next youtube, myspace, or facebook.

Anyway, if LBP is big, I'm sure everyone's going to take notice. This could be perfect timing too, HDTV's should be a big item this holiday. Somehow if Sony could get people buying an HDTV, a PS3, and LBP, it would be huge for them. How they get there is going to be hard though.

re: Welcoming Our New Sweatshop Overlords, Part III: Media Molecule's Alex Evans On the Complex Power of Simple Tools

Ginger Yellow — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:35:35 GMT

"I think Sackboy as a character, for example, has been fantastically well received and I would love for him/her to become an iconic character on the PS3. That certainly would help us find interesting ways of expanding the LBP universe and the content within it."

Is anyone else having horrific visions of Sackboy and Knuckles?