Resident Evil 5 producer - Wii couldn’t handle title screen of RE5

[mike_intellivision]

Diomedes1976 said:
I keep hearing that "wait until the developers shift to Wii!" arguement by wii fanboys ,but its clear thats not happening.

HD gaming sells more games that Wii gaming ,and many many more third party titles that Wii does.Plus ,this is a technology driven industry and developers wont abandon their investments in high end development tools and programming talent just to accomodate to the Wii technology....they will keep supporting the HD consoles and PC and throw some lame spin-offs and 2-3 original games here and there on the Wii.

Current difference in games over 80+ for 360 and PS3 against WII is massive ,and if wii fanboys think it wont get bigger and bigger as years pass they are only fooling themselves .

Diomedes

You have some good things to say ... and some not so good things to say.

A lot depends on the developer. Sega seems to have cast its lot more with the Wii than with the HD consoles. It sees that there is a market that is being underserved.

However, you are spot on with regard to HD preference on the part of many developmers.  PS3/Xbox 360/PC all use basically the same approach/code/graphics/middleware (or versions thereof), making those multiplatform games easy(ier) to program.

As for HD selling more than Wii -- the global tie ratio for the Wii is estimated to be HIGHER than the PS3 (5.16 vs. 4.88), according to this website. Admittedly that is a gross and inexact measure. But it does point out the selling myth.  (The Xbox 360 is higher at 7.22 -- but it has been out 12 months longer. So if you did a tie rate/time on market ratio, the Wi would be highest).

On the reviews, there is a bias in many parts of the review community against the Wii. But there is also a lot of shovelware out there. So it is a draw. But just remember high review scores does not necessarily equate with fun.

 

Mike from Morgantown