Xbox 360 boss lashes out against Wii: it can’t play DVDs
By John Pospisil
The president of Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, Robbie Bach (pictured), has lashed out against Nintendo’s Wii games console, criticizing the console’s weak graphics, lackluster performance and lack of DVD video playback. He also predicted that games developers would not be able to develop hard-core games for the Wii.
Speaking to eWeek, Bach couldn’t hide his contempt for Nintendo’s ludicrously successful Wii:
“…the video graphics on it aren’t very strong; the box itself is kind of underpowered; it doesn’t play DVDs; there are a lot of down-line components (that) aren’t actually that interesting,” said Bach.
He did concede however that the Wii controller was pretty cool:
“The controller is pretty intuitive and the game experience is pretty simple, and Nintendo can produce a lot of those simple game experiences themselves.”
Bach said that games developers won’t support the Wii because they can’t make money out of it, and because the Wii doesn’t have the grunt required for hard-core games.
“Third parties aren’t going to make much money on this platform because Nintendo is going to make all that money,” explained Bach.
“Their ability to compete with something like a Halo or produce an experience like Madden on their system is going to be tough. They don’t have the graphics horsepower that even Xbox 1 had.”
Ouch!
Still, while we’d expect Bach to hold these views, it’s surprising that he’s so open about them. Could it be that Microsoft is a little jealous of Nintendo’s amazing success with the Wii, in both the US and Japan?
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May 11th, 2007
haha i cant believe microsoft is going against the wii now there scared now cuz the wii is coming to get em! lol i wonder why he said that the wii doesnt have the graphics as xbox 1 if im clear and i know i am the gamecube had better graphics then the xbox and the wii is supposed to be 2 times as powerful as the gamecube so xbox bitch shut ur mouth
May 11th, 2007
Hahahahahahahahaha………..
He probably just saw the NPD Hardware Sales and crapped!!!!
Wii is kicking our a** , hell no!!! 360 was supposed to take PS2’s place is a king not the a system called the Wii!!!!!
May 11th, 2007
Never heard him talk about the defintely underpowered gamecube. im thinkin hes scarred he should go to church. LOL
May 11th, 2007
Nintendo is destroying the gaming culture… all those casuals meke me sick…
May 11th, 2007
fuck you
May 11th, 2007
xbox 360 RULES…………….
May 11th, 2007
this is completly ludicrous. who cares if the wii can play dvds? I own four dvd players and do not need another. Furthermore, I had gotten bored with Madden and the new control scheme made the game much more fun for to play so don’t tell me that the Wii can not do Madden. His comments are just the raving lunacies of a deranged jealous mind. That and he is probalbly talking to third party developers and trying to keep them from further devolping for the wii.
May 11th, 2007
I HATE THE WII I HATE THE WII I HATE THE WII……..P
eople really dont get it….the wii is gamecube….do you really think a next gen system can make profit from there console……the wii is now called the wiicube (
WIICUBE)
May 11th, 2007
The CPU in the Wii is a little more powerful than that of the original Xbox, and the GPU is also more powerful. The Wii is more powerful than the original Xbox, but not by much.
May 11th, 2007
I wish game companies would just say something honest like ‘The wii is doing well? Good, but we’re more concerned with our own quality of software and hardware, so let’s talk about the 360.” It seems a lot of people here just get all hot and horny over a company man doing or saying anything that a normal person.
I have a Wii and two 360’s I enjoy both of them very much. I am tired of the ‘console” wars, but even more tired of these low life ignorant children eating it up and spitting out trash talk like they’re some sort of authority. Most you you negative posters are worthless individuals with nothing to contribute to the world so you just jump on people who actually make something for the rest of us to enjoy.
Can it you freaks, make something yourself and see how it holds up, THEN you can be a critic.
May 11th, 2007
well, it’s as simple as the fact that the wii isn’t really created specifically for the hardcore gamer. look at the commercials for it, it’s marketed to everyone. it’s a way to get your mom or sister or grandpa to understand why you love your games so much. as that kind of console, it doesn’t have to be high powered or have amazing graphics. or even have 3rd party games. i just don’t think that’s part of nintendo’s marketing mix. it’s silly to really compare them, they’re completely different. i love my wii, i love my 360, and i love my ps3 all for different reasons.
May 12th, 2007
Garou, did you ever player Farcry in the WII?????????, i thing xbox 1 could do a much better job at it, dont you think??.
May 12th, 2007
Nintendo is making a profit on each system they sell. The point was not to make a graphically superior machine with a dvd, etc. I didn’t buy it because of the graphics. I bought it because it was fun.
May 12th, 2007
Why did you not mention Europe? I mean the sales in Europe are set to Eclipse that of America and Japan soon. England alone has sold 500,000 Wii consoles. DS has sold more Units in Europe than America and catching up to Japan.
May 12th, 2007
DVD? i buy wii becux of the game and design~~~not to play stupid HD DVD or BLU RAY… just the simple game experience.
as nintendo already goin on a different path , so Mr. Robbie should properly should just keep compare xbox horse power with ps3, period.
May 12th, 2007
many wii fans are ripping into other systems saying that its stupid to charge for a dvd player in a console and that its a waste of money because they already own a dvd player. Point taken, but these consoles already have a dvd reader because, surprise, the games are written on dvds. It already has the capabilities to read dvds. xbox, xbox360, and ps2 owners are not paying an additional $50+ for a dvd player they wont use. They are spending it so they wont have 8 disks for a single game.
May 12th, 2007
^wii discs hold the same as a dvd
May 12th, 2007
PS3 RULES XBOX 360 RULES even though i hate you microsoft once again nintendo screwed its fans over with a piece of shit called wii no wonder they never wanted to release the system specs cause they knew it was a damn gamecube with a new controller once again F**K you nintendo now i shall be off and go play some gears of wars and tekken
May 12th, 2007
gears of war and tekken, lol those are the only games you have ? 1 for each console lol, then what halo3 when it comes out and thats all the games you have for xbox and sony combined ? ? wow, your right, i should buy a 360 and ps3 just to play 1 game on each !!! your sooo smart symphony!!! ….grow up, there are NOOOOO good games for ps3, and 360 had gears but its such a manotinous game, same thing OVER AND OVER….just accept it, wii is blowing the competition out of the water, not only in consoles sold in a shorter amount of time but also in profit, and three HUGE titles for nintendo are still to come out (brawl,metroid and galaxy)….just wait until these 3 come out, yea 360 will have halo3 and ps3 will have nothing, but thats it, halo3 will sell as much as 1 of the big 3 for nintendo, but wait a minute, there’s 3 titles, so thats 3 times the revenue
ahahah wii needs some competition in the games department
too bad there are more people on the planet than hardcore gamers, otherwise the ps3 or 360 might actually be on top of the gaming world
gotta love the wii
May 13th, 2007
I don’t see why you guys get so worked up over this stuff. The 360 and PS3 are in competition. The Wii is competing against the PS2. It’s not a “next gen” platform, it’s just a new one. If they sell a Trillion of their consoles, the Next-Gen/This Gen race is between Sony and Microsoft. The DS sells great and who would dare put it in the same category as a PS3? That same holds true here. The Wii is fun and it’s selling well but it’s selling in a different market.
May 13th, 2007
For a guy whose DIVISION has burned more than 20 BILLION DOLLARS in development still having a net loss of $5 BILLION I would think he’d have bigger things to worry about than trashing a company that actually knows how to MAKE MONEY on hardware and software. When his division if ever manages to see a profit, then I’ll take his advice about how nobody can make money on a Nintendo system.
Coming from a guy who’s division has NEVER MADE A DIME IN PROFIT, he clearly knows nothing of profits and for him to speak that others can’t make it on another system is comical.
SONY knows how to make money on Video Gaming, Nintendo knows how to make money on Video Gaming… MS knows how to burn a lot of money on video games.. Listening to you about profits is comical.
Go back to Redmond and bury yourself in the MS dillusion.
May 15th, 2007
Who doesnt already have a DVD player anyway ?
May 21st, 2007
the Nintendo Wii kick ass
i even had to put in in capitals because its that good
ill do it again
Nintendo Wii
1. game play: holy jumping Fuckin shit balls
it is the best thing since sliced bread (well maybe not THE best, but you get the picture) i have so much fun playing zelda-slicing then foos with my Master Sword
Call of Duty 3 (although the Xbox 360’s graphics are a litttle better for this game, sorry) fighting off the german soldier when he takes a hold of your rifle, driving around in the jeep, being able to chuck the grenades back to the enemy
its insane
2. I know some people had it worse but i had to wait a good long week and a half maybe, i then had to go to 2 toys r us and 1 target, but i ended up getting it at my third toys r us
when i first opened and hooked it up…it felt a kid at christmas time opening my presents only to find the SNES (u guys know what im talking about)
these fuckers are hard to find
3. Connecting to the internet is the only problem i would have to say
i dont really see why it couldnt have been easier like it is with the 360.
with the 360 you just take the ethernet cable and hook the mother to the back of your pc or wireless router etc, but then again you have to buy that membership in order to go online and play online
with the wiii, i have still yet to buy a LAN adapter cuz i cant use the wi-fi USB cuz i gots vista and the usb is only compatible with XP
but being able to buy classic games like ocarina of time, starfox 64, sonic the hedgehog…its pretty badass
and thats all i have to say about that
May 21st, 2007
What´s the problem with the DVD player? My PC got a 20 dollars dvd unit, I watch DVD with it, and a plus: I burn DVD with it. I can plug in a controller, so I can play PC games, many of the 360´s games (multi plattform games), and emulate the ps1 and ps2 games. But still, I can´t even approach to a wii on my PC. Wii´s not powerful, Wii´s unique. Shut up, 360.
August 13th, 2007
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January 15th, 2008
idk how the wii is doing so well theyre still wasting time on the mario thing after 5 million years isnt it time we layed that dead charachter to rest nintendo
March 11th, 2008
The moron who said PS3 has nothing is stupid retard that should be shot