| Arius Dion said: The DS is one of the poster children as to why talk like this is ridiculous. The same talk the same bull shit articles were popping up, the same fad talk. I mean the PSP was supposed to dominate the DS and early on it had some weeks or months ahead, mainly when the DS was experiencing a gaming drought. Then the flood came and WAM 100m units. Plagued with "mini games" and "casual crap" the DS is now the darling of the industry. With perhaps the most diverse gaming library in the history of any system, handheld or console. But no way will the Wii have a similar situation, even though everything occuring is damn near identical. I honestly think the only difference is that the Wii has two competitors in the console market and the DS has on competitor in the handheld market. |
Unfortunately I have to agree with you here, the DS attracts so many developers because it is the handheld that sells software and developers want to sell software, but in the Wii's case developers can try to bust in to what is atleast percieved as being a "Nintendo and only a few others sell well" game or they can make a multiplat for the PS3/360 - while they will probably not make as much off the HD multiplat because of the high development cost to low sales ratio it feels easier for the developer. But Nintendo is doing a lot to combat this mentality and we the gamers are getting a bunch of good games out of it so yeah!
Currently dreaming of: DKC4 or Sonic the Hedgehog 4 (classic 2D platformers) for WiiWare, Smash Bros. for DSi, New Super Mario World for DSi, a Wii remake or true sequel of Final Fantasy Tactics.
One down, hopefully more awesomeness to come.
