| Impulsivity said: The PS2 had good and bad in 3rd party releases, and the cream actually rose (since the key PS2 customer was someone who actually liked gaming for gamings sake). The Wii has a handful of good games like Madworld, and that handful are shot down leaving only low budget crap to be made. It isn't entirely Nintendo's fault, but in choosing not to go to the low end of HD (and thus get easy ports of quality games on the other 2 consoles) and marketing solely to casuals they kind of brought this on themselves. Ever see a Sony E3 where they spend 10 minutes talking about how housewives can use their product to get recipes and how they advertise on daytime talk shows for old women who sit at home? I think not. |
PS2 gamers liked gaming for gaming sake? Are you kidding? More people would of bought a dreamcast if that was true.
No third partys brought this apon themselves. When you refuse to work on the system with the majority of market share and also the cheapest to develop for at the same, its not a smart business practice. Seeing how Nintendo cleans house in sales and profit would of being the first big sign of that.
Also you can make the best game in the world,yet not advertise it can really hurt any potential to sell on any system.
Lastly, welcome to 2005, Nintendo have being advertising to get people who aren't basement dwellers to start gaming. Its called expanding your business and guess what, it makes them millions of dollars and many jugs of bitter tears.
Want to see the difference HD makes, its very easy.
1) go rent Dead Rising on the 360, its a great game, you'll have fun
2) Go rent Dead Rising on the Wii, notice how there are half the zombies? Notice how awful the graphcis and AI are? Notice how its not really that fun anymore?
3) take this example and apply it to RE5, the results of a port would almost certainly be very similar (if not more pronounced given that RE5 is a much more technologically complex game then Dead Rising).
All I see is.
Want to see a bad port?
Hire a smaller team of developers, give them literally no budget or time and tell them to crank out the game as quick as possible.
Oh and its clearly the Wii's fault why this happen. Not the third party rushing it out the door.
