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Kasz216 on 30 July 2007
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Legend11 said:
Kasz216 said:
If you define Hardcore gamers as FPS I'm not seeing a problem. Has anyone played a FPS on the Wii? I mean Graphics aside the control interface is just going to lend itself better to a FPS that a gamepad ever could in terms of fun, as for control it should be only rivaled by a mouse.

Nintendo just needs to convince people to make FPS for it.

That or make "Return to Castle Bowser". A Mario First Person Shooter. That would be hysterical.

The problem is that most FPS games are made for 360/PS3/PC, so those systems already have enough games to attract FPS gamers and have built hardcore FPS audiences already.  Sure Nintendo has MP3 coming out but that's like Microsoft coming out with Banjo Kazooie 3, those games will attract fans of their respective genres but people are kidding themselves if they think one game or even a few will somehow create an audience that rivals the other system's in those genres.  It's still more of a risk to bring a new game out for a system that hasn't seen a lot of other games in that genre.

For situations like this is usually takes a console's creators to be the ones who put up the money and take the risks in order to trailblaze and create an audience for such games but so far from interviews it seems like Nintendo isn't interested in creating FPS (outside of Metroid Prime).  I seem to remember an interview in which Miyamoto was asked about Halo and gave a statement saying he wasn't interested in producing such games.  So it seems they're leaving it up to third parties to do the heavy lifting and since third parties usually try to play it safe that may end up taking a long time to happen.


Instantly rival?  Nah, I got to the PC, 360 and N64 for most of my FPS too but to say the Wii will ignore that route, i doubt it.  Plenty of people will be interested in good FPS for the Wii because it'll be a new expierence with better controls.  You gotta build up this stuff slowly.  Considering how cheap Wii's are if a few FPS get decent reviews who's not going to want one?  Well unless you are into nothing but first person shooters.

I guess it's just around here... but most people around here get the newest FPS, play with it for a month then go back to Castle Wolfenstein, Halo and Perfect Dark.

They should make a Mario FPS though, the more i think about it the more fun and hilarious it would be... plus it would piss off people who are too hardcore and take themselves too seriously.

Bananna Peels in place of Mines?  Walk by Wire Bombombs?  Fire Flower Flamethrowers?  Would be all sorts of fun.  Or at the very least... better then the Southpark FPS.  My one friend gave that to me for free when I bought some PS games from him because he was selling it to get an Xbox.  Why he gives me a free N64 game when I buy a few PS games from him... who knows?