Mike Wilson Quotes

The gaming experience on Windows Vista is going to go beyond any of the gaming consoles and anything that's been done before.

The point of view is the biggest problem with games, because what we play must be clearly presented in the best way for me to have an immersive game experience.

While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.

If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.

The more personalized television gets, the less passive the experience will become.

That's what we're all about: delivering a really comfortable VR experience that everybody can enjoy and afford.

As a PC gaming enthusiast, a significant chunk of my time and money was spent building and upgrading my rig, always in pursuit of a better gaming experience. At some point, I decided to take a look past my three 3D monitors and figure out what the absolute best theoretical gaming setup would be.

I think theatre must be an event, an experience, not compete with cinema. When people are able to download stories on Netflix, you need to give them a good reason to jump into the car and drive two hours. It has to be something you can only see in the theatre, and it has to be worth it.

It's funny because I remember playing 'Grand Turismo,' and I would get yelled at by my brother for moving the controller as if it was a wheel. He was, 'It's not gonna help you.' Now you have a Wii, and you could actually move and control it.

The feeling that makes 'Warcraft' work as a game is that feeling that heroism can come out of anything or anyone.

For narrative games, and also for the sake of the medium, we have to treat performance that way, as actors. You have to have a sense of ownership over it and believe that you're bringing something meaningful to it - because that's what all of the developers are doing, and that's what the story demands.

I loved playing 'Ultima.' Getting my computer in college and playing 'Wing Commander.' I hear a lot from our fans, and they are the same way. Games are where I want to be.

When I left 'Coronation Street,' I wondered if I could ever be lucky enough to work with such a unanimously wonderful company of good people - and I've just come to that good bunch again.

Usually, companies, when they approach other people to do VR, they're like, 'We're gonna offer a virtual reality experience' - to me, that usually means they're gonna put a bunch of 360° cameras in a room, film something, and wrap the video in a sphere so you can head-track and look around. To me, that's not virtual reality. That's 360° video.

You are carving out a story. You and your colleagues are trying to make something that is bigger than yourself. Although it can be a scary experience because you're putting your work out on the line, it's also incredibly rewarding because a lot of it comes from you.

We have this vision, that over time, social play and great content will be the core of great VR.

It's always fascinating to me and blows my mind whenever I'm in a video game because I am such a big video game fan at heart.

Particularly with our games, people get involved with the characters and the world. They're going to take their time with it pretty seriously, so we need to take it even more seriously to make it good.

I grew up playing games like 'War Zone' and the old 'Smackdown,' so I'm very excited to see myself in a game.

Overcoming challenges by learning something in a game is a very rewarding feeling, and that's what I wanted to prioritise in 'Dark Souls' and 'Demon's Souls.'

The most rewarding thing to me is going deep into games, knowing you stood up, and did your job.

When I directed the 'Ring' cycle at the Metropolitan Opera in New York recently, there were people texting all through the show. But theatre isn't a communication device: it's a communion.

The Wii U is not a tablet. It's a two-screen experience. And so you have this unique GamePad that gives you a different way to have a gaming experience.

The 'FIFA' games are getting more and more realistic. You can see it from one year to the next. Whenever I play on the console I try to be influenced by my own experience.