{"id":399,"date":"2007-11-12T16:45:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T15:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=399"},"modified":"2007-11-12T22:40:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-12T21:40:36","slug":"will-wright-the-wii-is-the-only-next-gen-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/11\/12\/will-wright-the-wii-is-the-only-next-gen-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Wright: The Wii is the only Next-gen System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/technology\/2007\/oct\/26\/willwright\">The Guardian has an interview with Will Wright<\/a> in which he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The only next gen system I&#8217;ve seen is the Wii \u2013 the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement. But the Wii feels like a major jump \u2013 not that the graphics are more powerful, but that it hits a completely different demographic. In some sense I see the Wii as the most significant thing that&#8217;s happened, at least on the console side, in quite a while.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The interesting rhetorical move here is that &#8220;next-gen&#8221; has been tied to &#8220;more polygons&#8221; for such a long time, but why not reclaim &#8220;next-gen&#8221; for better purposes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian has an interview with Will Wright in which he says: The only next gen system I&#8217;ve seen is the Wii \u2013 the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement. But the Wii feels like a major jump \u2013 not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2007\/11\/12\/will-wright-the-wii-is-the-only-next-gen-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will Wright: The Wii is the only Next-gen System&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}