| Magnific0 said: I see Bigjon, the solution is: instead of making a crappy game with a big budget for an HD console, make an even crappier game but with less money for the Wii and you **MAY** reap the benefits, at least won't lose much money. OK. Now, I can't see which part of that benefits the players. More crappy games with no commitment to quality, I don't want that , don't know about you. If a company wants to stay competitive they've got to work harder, if the can't then it's time for them to consider developing other kinds of games, there's the PSN/Xbox Live Alternative. Look at the healthy Capcom branch of downloadable games, look at all the fine content of indie games on the PSN. If you can't deliver, you just can't so change your business, if that means going the Wii way to put out your trash there, then do it, if it's for the sake of business, it's all about money anyway. I just don't see how that benefits the industry. Even worse, I see that could very well be the path to distruction (going the casual, generic way) the only "Big Crash" of videogames that ever happened to this industry was provoked exactly by that proliference of crappy casual games. |
I think you shouldn't be focussing on the Wii part of this argument (unless you plan on trashing the Wii), but on the fact that game devs are simply making mediocre games. Whether the games are for the Wii or an HD system, if the games are mediocre, they should only sell as much as a mediocre title. With the appropriate sales expectations, an appropriate budget can be made to invest in the game. It seems like a majority of the Western 3rd party devs percieve investment as directly proportional to profit (i.e the more that is spent on a game means it will sell more), which is not the case. If 3rd party devs made games with the same quality as Nintendo and Sony, many of these 3rd parties would be more succesful, regardless of console choice.
As for the last part of your argument I need to agree with, we will have the same problem if a majority of the devs make casual games, which is just as bad as most of them releasing another shooter.
