I'd understand the complaints coming from the Bethesda and id camps if they actually set foot in Nintendo's enviroments for once. If third parties can't even dip their toes then they shouldn't bother saying anything. At least Ubisoft, Capcom and EA give Nintendo consoles a go. It's better than sitting through another excuse from Konami or Rockstar while their sales and pools of customers shrink.
There's a good advice that when you have no full idea and research you don't talk about it.
Seems like Carmack knows this advice well.
Pete Hines speaks generally for Bethesda Softworks, and also sometimes a load of bullcrap.
How the news was reported and how he said it was very, i should say, sneaky.
Truth is, i already told here Carmack wanted to make WiiU version of Doom3BFG, but it was Zenimax is actually marching them to use all dev resources for Doom4 so there's nobody, people have been pulled from other project such as mobile(which as totally stopped) to join Doom4 team.
And maybe that's because Zenimax doesn't have marketing strategy they terribly need before they can go release a game (which also made that Rage MAC version would have not happend if it wasn't for Carmack pushing for it), they won't get any strategy just sitting around, it's like waiting for someone else to make a working scheme off which they can copycat, everyone's waiting for everyone, ubisoft will immensly take the advantage of being early in the console's lifecycle as those games will be remembered and will create a presnece in the market.
Doom3 BFG is absolutely huge opportunity to make an ID presence on WiiU by which people will remember, and enable Carmack to talk more deeper about the hardware and research on what the console really is.
