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NeoRatt on 24 September 2007
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DarkNight_DS said:
mrstickball said:
IMO, I think VP is going to attempt to be Microsoft's #1 family-friendly franchise.

MS needs to focus Rare (since they own it) on the Viva Pinata franchise, as well as the Banjo Kazooie series. Rare's just about the only good non-Nintendo company for family friendly titles (atleast in terms of putting a ton out that are great).

VP was a masterpiece of a real-time simulation game and vastly undersold and underrated. But with a system like X360, it needs ALOT of games like this, like JRPGs, to build the userbase - the base isn't already there, but if enough games come out like VP, VPA, and such, they will start selling real well.

 Microsoft need's it's Mario, the Viva Pinata characters are not to the caliber that's needed.  Sony got it right with Crash Bandicoot...  send the mascott off to Nintendo's headquarters and call them out.  Too bad Sony didn't keep with Crash, maybe we wouldn't have gotten all those horrible sequels on the PS2, GC and Xbox if they had.


It takes years to build something like Mario.  VP is on the right path but they need to keep coming out with titles that receive great reviews.  Mario = Casual Gaming right now...  They are building VP the same way.  Mario has been around for over 20 years.  VP one...  At this point I don't really think you can say VP doesn't have the caliber required.  Time will tell.

There is a lot of potential in VP.  It has a lot of characters, is linked to a TV show, it would be easy to add more diversity to it as it is a different world, and it is colorful which helps.  It will take time, but they seem to be moving it on the right path.  I suspect there will be at least one VP title per year.