Will Wright Game Quotations

The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players,

I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.

Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

We really want to have most of the failure in a game be based on things that the player did, as opposed to things outside of the player's control.

In some ways I find the mouse to be a much more advanced device than your typical game controller, ... It is generally easier to learn because of the visual nature of its interface and has far more consistency across applications. The mouse is still rapidly changing (more buttons, mouse wheels), in a sense it represents the evolution of a new language based on micro-gestures of your hand and fingers. Whatever the device is, I think this new spatial/gesture language represents the most probable future of input devices.

But the themes our games are about, almost everyone brings their own experience to.

I think for most people, their kind of general aesthetic with games is that the more I control this experience, the better the game is.

Imagine a game that can sense your interests, emotional states and abilities,

These games contain elements of all the other mediums before -- books, movies, television, theater, toys, and architecture.

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.