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Khuutra on 23 January 2009
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frybread said:
ph4nt said:
PS3 and 360 built up the COD franchise with modern warfare allowing the 5th one to sell easily, The Wii has to do that now with World at War (which it is doing, but it's still a watered down version of the ps360 version).

I don't think it's an issue with the graphics or the console userbase, it's the decisions from the 3rd parties not building up the fanbase on Wii, had CoD 4 been released on Wii without gimped online modes, I think it would have outsold the PS3 version handily, and now CoD 5 would be doing much better than it currently is.

 

 So it's the developer's fault then, they had a market on Wii with COD 3, but let it slip through their fingers with COD 4.

I wonder if there's still time to recover, or if FPS gamers have moved on.

Look, you game on the Wii and the PC, right?

I game on the Wii and the 360.

Yes, we both know that the particular motion controls allowed by the Wii makes for better experiences in certain genres and the IR pointing makes it into a dream for FPS games.

But.

You and I also both know that there was never a huge "FPS" crowd in the first place. The dedicated FPS fans on consoles all played Halo until CoD4 came out, at which point the genre was expanded in the context of HD gaming.

They're still all on the HD consoles and the PC.

The Wii's FPS install base will continue to grow, of course it will, it can't do anything else, but the momentum for the genre on the HD consoles is, as of right now, irreversible.