Interview: Johnny Chung Lee on Hacking the Wii

Jan. 17 4:23 PM by Lynxara

I've blogged about Johnny Chung Lee before. He's made the Wii Remote do some mind-boggling things. Game Informer had a talk with him about his work.

GI: As a video-game player, what do you think of the gaming landscape now? Do you think there's an acceptable level of innovation going on in the industry?

Lee: I definitely think that, at least among the traditional gaming platforms--maybe not on the Wii, but on the Xbox and the PlayStation--the way they're going about providing a gaming experience is sort of an asymptotic experience, where they're doing a very good job at it, but they're not really evolving very far beyond that. To me, probably the most interesting stuff that's going to happen to gaming in the future will be with new ways to control or interact with the system, either physically or using input devices. So actually I think games are one of the most interesting places to explore new computer-interaction techniques. I think the Wii is a particularly good step toward that, but I thing there's still a long way to go.