| Esa-Petteri said: @donathos Nice and long answer. Yeah, mario fps would be a huge hit. Too bad that the third parties won't be getting that one. ;P It is up to the devs, and I think they are doing a pretty good job at the moment. If you look at the profits they are making on wii games, why wouldn't they be? Low development costs for games like carnival games + good sales = big profits. I would not put a lot of money for developing games if I could get more profit for less investment... And yeah, I think that a good wii title should be easy for the new players and at least somewhat challanging to more experienced players. I just fail to see how that is supposed to be achieved in many genres. |
Oh -- one last thing, then I have to get off for the night. Of course no third party can make Mario FPS, but that isn't the point. The point is to make a game like Nintendo would make it, not aping their trademarked characters, or even their specific style, but with attention to things like accessibility, family-friendliness, party-action, quality, depth, polish, artistic strength, etc.
Look, Goldeneye wasn't Goldeneye because everyone loved James Bond. It was Goldeneye because of what it created in terms of the game experience. The Mario FPS we're talking about doesn't have to have Mario in it! :) It just has to be a great, new game that speaks to the things that Wii owners like. Instead of being Game #192 with Mario in it, or whatever, it can be Game #1 with a new cast of characters that winds up living forever in the hearts and minds of gamers, just as all of today's great franchises started with a Game #1.
G'night. :)
