| The Ghost of RubangB said: 7 days ago EA announced a Wii Fit clone, called EA SPORTS Active. I'm sure it will fail. This is the problem many 3rd parties are having, and it's their own fault, not the fault of any mixed messages from Nintendo. They are copying Nintendo instead of competing with Nintendo. The genius of Wii Fit was that it had never been done before and took several new great ideas and put them all in one great package with a lot of effort and high production values. The way to compete with Wii Fit would be to take several new great ideas and put them all in one great package with a lot of effort and high production values, not just copy Wii Fit's old great ideas and rush it out with low prodution values. This is the same reason that Nintendogs does better than any Petz game on the market, and why Brain Training does better than any of its clones. If developers are choosing to follow the leader instead of actually competing, then that's their own problem and they deserve to lose their money. Also, where are the clones of Mario Galaxy and Mario Kart and Smash Bros.? These idiotic developers don't have the balls to copy those games, so they copy the games that are cheaper to copy. Because they are wimps in a business that only has room for giants. There are tiny companies coming out with great original games (World of Goo, No More Heroes, etc.), but it's the big companies that have their heads so far up their asses they don't know how to compete. |
I am also sure it will fail. After all, it is not bundled with a balance board? You'd have to own wii fit to play that game. But what is that? As far as I can see, a lot of the best selling and the most profitable 3rd party games are copies of wii play/sports. Carnival games and so on don't have to sell as much as wii sports to make a pretty nice profit.
The problem with smg,kart and smash bros is the nintendo characters on them. Third parties can't use them, so there is little point to copy those games. What is so great and original about no more heroes? World of goo is excellent. :)
