Third parties pull a fast one and blame Nintendo for their own crappy games

[Pristine20]

Kenny said:

Pristine20 said:

vdoesntforgive said:

Pristine20 said:
Why does every one seem to think the differences in power between the last gen consoles is the same as this gen? The difference in power between the ps2/xbox/GC is much much smaller than the ps360 and wii. The wii doesn't even support HD whereas last gen, everything was SD.

The author makes very good points. I don't understand nintendo. They've made billions from their new approach but surely they anticipated that there'll be "side effects". Why are they complaining now? They're in the best financial situation than any other company in the business which is a corporation's ultimate goal.

The truth is the author is right about game devs. All the people I know who want to get into the industry are hardcore gamers who love their dooms and halos and want to make their own. I don't know anyone who only has a wii and sees game development as a career choice

 

No ones asking to be able to watch beads of sweat run down and between the follicles of the face on the playable character, who just so happens to be a bald space marine. I think most people will settle for some good games.

I don't know why you wii owners always pick on Halo.

On topic, some people really want to see the beads of sweat run down lol. Won't you consider  cod:WaW a good game? Those are the kinds of games that release on ps360 but wii owners refuse to buy it. What do you guys want from 3rd party devs exactly?

 

For the record, I bought CoD:WaW.  However, the fact of the matter is that WaW on the Wii is stripped down from the PS360 versions.  The maximum number of players in multiplayer was cut in half, vehicles were removed, multiplayer co-op was taken out, the Nazi Zombies are gone...  There are no good technical reasons for any of these omissions, and yet these features are missing.  The point is, it's not a fair comparison, because WaW is the kind of game that focuses on the online multiplayer experience, and the Wii version is, for no good reason, markedly inferior in that regard.

You see, even if the vehicles were removed and co-op was taken out, even cod4 didn't have those options but it sold better than games like bad company which allow you to fly even helicopters and Resistance 2 which has co-op options beyond anything I've ever seen. So I won't consider the omission of those options an excuse for the cod:waw selling a measly 0.07mil (according to vgc).

You are right, the game is inferior but I used to think wii owners were in need of a good shooter so that would make it more likely to sell more? On ps3 some people picked R2 over cod:waw and many 360 owners chose to play gears 2 nstead. Other HD console owners just stuck with cod4 but what other game competes with cod:Waw on wii? My conclusion: the audience for this sort of game either don't have wiis or have both a wii and one or both of the HD consoles for which they just went HD.