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griffinA on 28 June 2009
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hanafuda said:
RolStoppable said:
Most of the time a Wii game that "flops" serves as reassurement for people who fear that big third party games may migrate to a Nintendo console due to the Wii's high installed base. I can't think of another good reason why some guys jump at every oppurtunity to point out low sales (even if it's going to come back and bite them in the ass a few months later when the game racked up respectable sales). This isn't only restricted to regular fanboys, but also includes game journalists.

If the Wii got all those games it already got, but didn't have these hardware sales and instead had an installed base of around 20m, there wouldn't be so much noise about third party "failures". There would be nothing to fear because a third place console wouldn't get better third party support anyway. And without that fear there wouldn't be a need to constantly jump at every oppurtunity to declare that the Wii won't get better third party games because the games already out didn't sell.

Almost 3 years though and this still aint happening. I wonder why... Of course, you could raise MH3 as an exception, but if you think Capcom won't port that you are kidding yourself. There isn't any justification for third parties to make core Wii exclusives. You can keep Deadly Creatures...


Well it's hard to get concrete examples when it's sort of a choice developers make internally. MH3 has been about the only example of a developer saying "well we were going HD, but it's too expensive." The only other obvious one is Rabbids Go Home as I believe the developers of Beyond Good and Evil 2 are now working on that game.

But if you just look at any third-party wii exclusive, thats taking away what could have been a potential HD game. And as third-party wii exclusives have been increasing as of late, I'd say the wii has been taking away more and more HD games.



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