Id Software is responsible for a number of games, but most famously the 'Quake' and 'Doom' series'. The recent QuakeCon 2008 gave John Carmack, the lead programmer of Id Software, a chance to express his opinions on the current console market, more exclusively that of the Wii. At the press conference, Carmack had this to say about him and his son, Ryan:

"Right now we're on Super Paper Mario, and we have two more pure hearts to go. We've played a lot of Mario games, and it's been great. I even went out and bought an old 8-bit Nintendo to play the original Super Mario in its original form. It's wonderful what Nintendo is doing where you can still get that old game on the Wii or DS and its much nicer with cooler graphics."

John also said how he and his son "..play a lot of Mario Kart and Super Mario Brothers [on DS], but he usually has me play the hard levels."

When asked if we'll see any games put out on the Wii by Id Software, John said, "The Wii is one of those markets where Nintendo owns both the hardware and the software, but part of that is because they make such damn good products. So it's the toughest platform for third party developers. We don't have a software or content base ideally suited for it. So it doesn't really play to our strengths and we're pretty busy with other stuff right now."

Finally, John said he was "..thrilled that Nintendo has had this kind of success because they took some risky bets, and it's always nice some bold thinking pay off for them. But I don't think we'll be on the platform."

I believe John's right here. Nintendo recently stated at E3 how 19 third-party Wii games have sold more than 400,000 units, but at the Wii's launch, 'The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess' sold 700,000 copies, not to mention the copies it's sold since. So maybe certain third party companies should stick to the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 where they belong?


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Source: Aussie-Nintendo