News: Lowenstein gets it

February 08, 2007, 11:24 AM

by brandon, via lowenstein -
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doug lowenstein, now leaving the ESA (which runs E3 and the ESRB) is pretty mad. He seems to be mad at developers who don't stand up for what they represent, and mad at games press for being immature and shallow. Hey, guess what, he's right! I'll give you an excerpt, but most of the speach can be found here.

“Great other forms of media have a very very powerful forms of critical components,” he continued. “Look at the film and music industries. The quality of the nature of the criticism is very deep, it’s very thoughtful. The game industry press has the ability to push this industry to greater heights of creative success. People in this room care a lot more about what the games press say about what they create than what anyone else will say. And I hope that that platform is used in a way that is more empowering and more ambitious. I just don’t think the games press has asked enough of itself, and I hope that it does.”

Years later, we're still talking about the same thing. Something's got to change, eh?