| Ail said:
What exactly you expect publishers/developers to do ? HD consoles still represent a very significant portion of the sales for 3rd parties publishers. As soon as they decide the game has to work on those they need to work on graphics and realism as it is what owners of those consoles want. This de-facto forces the Wii version to be a port and when you've decided to port down to the Wii you might as well do a PS2 port as PS2 sales are not so bad either ( and the extra mile to port to the PS2 once you have downported to the Wii isn't that crazy hard..) As long as HD consoles represent a very significant portion of sales of multiplat 3rd party titles, this won't change.... The only exception is multiplat games not relying heavily on graphics but aside from music games there aren't a lot of those.. |
The point isn't that these games are ports ... The problem is so many people have been burned by awful ports (like Far Cry Vengeance) that they're associating all ported games as being awful. Realistically, there is nothing about the PSP, PS2 or Wii that means that they couldn't make a great game with the same premise of the HD versions of the game ... The problem is that publishers have devoted their worst teams to produce these games, and they may sacrifice future sales based on how short sighted they have been.
