Creator sites lack of processing power and non-gamer audience: The Wii would not be a suitable platform for PC classic Football Manager, according to the game's creator. In an interview with Pro-G, Miles Jacobsen, MD of SEGA-owned developer Sports Interactive said that while he would "love to be doing something on the Wii" he didn't believe Football Manager in the form it appears on the PC "would be the right game to make for the Wii anyway".
Commenting on the challenges of bringing the game to Xbox 360, which doesn't have a mouse or keyboard interface, Jacobsen said: "If the Wii had the specs of the 360 that would be brilliant. You'd just use the Wii controller to do it and press the button. It (Football Manager) doesn't need a huge graphics card but it does need very good processors and very good RAM and preferably a hard drive to be able to do stuff with. And also resolution is important as well. The game plays much better in 720 than it does in standard definition because you can get much more on the screen."
Eurogamer: "It's a shame when relationships end but it's often for the best. Football Manager and me had it all – long intimate evenings, weekends away, the occasional holiday. I'd thought we never split up. But eventually cracks began to appear, the physical side deteriorated, and we became strangers.
As an early adopter of pretending to manage a football team on a computer (i.e. a semi-autistic weirdo), a chronic addiction to Football Manager seemed my inevitable destiny. My first taste was the original Football Manager on the ZX Spectrum, whose bearded creator, Kevin Toms, appeared beaming on the cassette case cover."
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The UK's loss of talented developers in the sports genre has been 'utterly huge' according to Miles Jacobson, the studio head of London-based Football Manager developer Sports Interactive.
In an exclusive interview with Develop, Jacobson explained that Canada's exemplary tax break rates – which peak at 40% of dev costs – was the reason why a number of British-born developers now work in cities such as Vancouver and Toronto.
