Which 3rd party will be first to invest big bucks on a Wii game?

[steven787]

Biggerboat said:

steven787 said:
As far as development budgets:

SE has FF:CC in the works that looks pretty high budget.

Red Steel 2 will probably have a higher dev. budget than one did.

Samurai Warriors Katana doesn't look cheap.

Some multi-plat games: MoH2, EA Sports, etc.


But I don't think there is ever going to be much. The whole idea is that developers can make games on the cheap.

Cheap yes, but only in comparison with 360/PS3 games. I see no reason why budgets which were reached on last gen consoles can't be matched if not exceeded on Wii. FF is definately one of the bigger projects but I still wouldn't say it will be up there with the PS2 FF games as at the end ofthe day it's a spin-off. Red Steel is a possibility, on a slightly different topic though I can't see this game receiving the same hype as KillZone2 even though they're both based on average first installments.

 I think there will be some more Big ones, like RE4 was on GCN but much more than GCN had.  But I still stand by my prediction that 3/4 of the 3rd party games will seem even lower budget than last gen.  Lot's of casual titles... but I think casual titles will get big and better too as they as that field gets more competitive (better looking, more features, online capabilities, peripherals, etc).