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MetalGearSolid_4ever on 04 January 2010

Lets look at some big, good quality 3rd party games that haven't released on Wii in 2009.

Batman Arkham Asylum

Borderlands

Modern Warfare 2

Assassin's Creed

Those are just a handful.

Why do third party publishers ignore the Wii even though its selling bucket loads ? Its crazy.

Wii games usually have long legs because there are a lot of potential impulse buyers than PS360 combined. And it wouldn't cost a lot to downgrade the graphics to put it on Wii would it ?

With decent advertising along with the PS360 versions, third party publishers can make a lot of money via the Wii.

Why do they ignore it ?



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ps3_jrpg_gamer on 04 January 2010

Devil may cry 4
Resident Evil 5
Final Fantasy XIII
Tekken 6
Blaz Blue
Street Fighter IV
and a huge list Wii gets games like Soul Calibour legends, RE:the umbrella chronicles spin -offs side-stories and almost never sequels



MetalGearSolid_4ever on 04 January 2010
ps3_jrpg_gamer said:
Devil may cry 4
Resident Evil 5
Final Fantasy XIII
Tekken 6
Blaz Blue
Street Fighter IV
and a huge list Wii gets games like Soul Calibour legends, RE:the umbrella chronicles spin -offs side-stories and almost never sequels

I'm talking about major PS360 multi platform games.

 



demonfox13 on 04 January 2010

Because the fans eat anything Miyamoto pretty much and nearly ignore everything else. They don't care for Batman: AA. Besides, just release some ok games throughout the year, show 1 concept art of Link posing at an E3 and you have them sold. Oh same works using Mario btw :p.



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MetalGearSolid_4ever on 04 January 2010
demonfox13 said:
Because the fans eat anything Miyamoto pretty much and nearly ignore everything else. They don't care for Batman: AA. Besides, just release some ok games throughout the year, show 1 concept art of Link posing at an E3 and you have them sold. Oh same works using Mario btw :p.

Batman would do pretty well on wii imo.



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burgerstein on 04 January 2010
demonfox13 said:
Because the fans eat anything Miyamoto pretty much and nearly ignore everything else. They don't care for Batman: AA.


That's pure speculative bullshit. I'm a huge Nintendo fan and I loved Arkham Asylum.



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demonfox13 on 04 January 2010
MetalGearSolid_4ever said:
demonfox13 said:
Because the fans eat anything Miyamoto pretty much and nearly ignore everything else. They don't care for Batman: AA. Besides, just release some ok games throughout the year, show 1 concept art of Link posing at an E3 and you have them sold. Oh same works using Mario btw :p.

Batman would do pretty well on wii imo.

At BEST it would do as good as NMH which was a little less than 500k if that. Just give them some more Lego Batman with some waggle functions and they'll eat it up though so you're partially right :p.



Make games, not war (that goes for ridiculous fanboys)

I may be the next Maelstorm or not, you be the judge http://videogamesgrow.blogspot.com/  hopefully I can be more of an asset than a fanboy to VGC hehe.

MetalGearSolid_4ever on 04 January 2010
demonfox13 said:
MetalGearSolid_4ever said:
demonfox13 said:
Because the fans eat anything Miyamoto pretty much and nearly ignore everything else. They don't care for Batman: AA. Besides, just release some ok games throughout the year, show 1 concept art of Link posing at an E3 and you have them sold. Oh same works using Mario btw :p.

Batman would do pretty well on wii imo.

At BEST it would do as good as NMH which was a little less than 500k if that. Just give them some more Lego Batman with some waggle functions and they'll eat it up though so you're partially right :p.

So what ?

500k for a SD version with minorly downgraded textures, character models, etc. would be profitable and fans would like it (unless they change the gameplay too)



Simulacrum on 04 January 2010

Bah..This have been talked so much.

1:Just think how long games like Mgs 4 were developed and after that they got hang on Ps3 and then they should think how to make it ok with Wii controls and graphics...
2:Some games need power to be good.

3:Wii controls are bad for fighting games like Tekken or SF4 or Devil May Cry.

4:Many of those games developers have been doing same stuff from Ps1>pS2>ps3 with just graphical and gameplay changes.They would need to start from beginning if they would try put sequels of past generation to Wii and that would piss of many of their fans.
5:Wii doesn't have such audience for sequels of Ps2 series or certain type games.



 

 

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Evil-Kirby on 04 January 2010

Because they're assholes!