| Lolcislaw said: WRPG's are a strong genre on the consoles with Xbox 360 seeing strong sales of such games like Fable, Mass Effect , Oblivion and Fallout 3 with last two appearing on the Playstation 3 as well. I know that WRPG's were dominating on the PC's in the past but now they are as successful (or maybe even more succesful on the home consoles) when ported on those platforms. As we know 3rd party support for the Wii increases every month with some good titles coming mainly from Japanese Devs, there are plenty of JRPG's for example coming this year (which i also like a lot). While Western support still could be much better, we see a signs of improvement(EA recent statements for example). My question is that will the increased third party support on Nintendo console bring some Western RPG's on the console, a type of game completely absent from Wii library, do you think there is a chance ? |
WRPGs are nowhere near as successful on consoles as they are on PC. The fact that PC has probably much more million-selling WRPGs than all consoles combined this gen is a proof of that.
There are several problems with the Wii that hurts the choice of getting ports. First is that Wii isn't technologically similar to PC - It's a very old and weak tech, so developers would probably have a harder time to port to Wii than the Xbox 360, for example.
And second, WRPGs usually have more complex mechanics and "hardcore" gameplay while the Wii is perceived as a "casual system".
