Merrick on Mark Reign

It seems that Jim Merrick was well aware of Reign's seemingly biased comments made towards the Revolution two weeks ago. For those who are behind in info, Mark disses the Revolution console, insisting games will be "all about the graphics" in the upcoming generation, and that Nintendo fans are in for "crappy, cheap, I-wish-I-hadn't-bought-it gimmicks". Surprisingly, out of the many developers who have commented on the Revolution after the TGS, Reign was the only individual to present a negative view.

That is fair enough, guess nobody can control his opinions. But what has been nagging my mind, and I'm sure the minds of many other gamers, is the aggressive attitude, and lack of evidence to back up Reign's comments. The use of "I-wish-I-hadn't-bought-it" to describe Revolution games are undoutably biased against Nintendo. Besides from the fact that he doesn't own a dev kit, haven't been told the specs, and hasn't utilised the controller, I also doubt he's been shown any Revolution games (running on next gen hardware).

It's all well if he'd back up his comment, perhaps with evidence of the Revolution's inferior hardware, or lack of on par graphics. But he's included nothing of the sort, and now besides from making himself appear to be a total idiot when compared to other developers, he's hated by fans from all over the internet.

Apparantly, Merrick shares similar views as the rest of us N-gamers. In a recent interview he has responded to Reign's comments:

“Mark has a very narrow section of the business. Epic builds middleware, they’re very technically savvy guys, but he doesn’t have a Revolution controller, he doesn’t have a dev kit, he’s talking about something he knows nothing about. So if he’d like to get a dev kit and really dig into it, then I’d be interested to hear what he has to say.”

That was a little aggressive coming from Nintendo... but neccessary. Gonintendo.com have recently emailed some questions to Reign, and are waiting for his response. Tune into Go Nintendo for more news.