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Nintendo responds to Epic's Revolution disdain

Jim Merrick (225)Remember about a month ago when someone finally spoke out against Nintendo's Revolution controller? Mark Rein, VP of Epic, in his now infamous words, stated that "you're gonna see more crappy, cheap, I-wish-i-hadn't-bought-it gimmick games based around that controller." Well, those comments have not gone unnoticed by Nintendo.

NOE's Jim Merrick, who has as of late given more interview than company spokesperson Reggie Fils-Aime, responded with his own opinion, and his own challenge to Mr. Rein:

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.

The full interview (via Eurogamer) contains a lot of juicy information, even if it is mostly reaffirming what is already known: Revolution games will be shown at E3, Hideo Kojima is working on a Revolution, and some retro games may only cost "a couple of pounds" to download. Knowing now that Mark Rein has not played with a Revolution controller, do you feel his comments hold less water than they once did?

[Thanks, Princess Zelda]

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