"BAWWWWWW! Good games shouldn't be on the Wii!"

[LordTheNightKnight]

killeryoshis said:
people here are putting such a good arguement that I don't know whose side to choose.Ok what I think about this nonsense about how wii games shouldn't be on wii. Its like this.People are not wii haters but graphic whores. You see they are afard if the wii starts getting alot of 3rd party support they think its downgraded.Most people want them on hd systems.So they try to say its a flop to discourage other 3rd party support.Now this on consoles. On the ds and psp their is little fanboy comments like these

I've seen evidence that Wii fanboys are graphics whores as well. Every time a game has circular shadows, there are complainers, completely ignoring the fact that the Wii only have around 24MB (more if it dips into the GDDR3 RAM or EDRAM) for graphics, while the 360 and PS3 have 256MB (give and take depending on the game, Dead Rising 2 will obviously use more RAM for zombie AI). They can afford a chunk of RAM set aside for a bunch of lighting effects. The Wii can't.

Either way, a game should be judged on whether it's fun. I don't think Saints Row two is good because of the graphics. I think it's good because it's a fun game. Same as GTA III (which I just wrote a review here).

And just to get it out of the way, Dead Rising is not a valid argument against putting those games on the Wii. Porting (as loosely as the term applies to this game) is just about as much to do with experience with the system as anything else. Name one game like Dead Rising that was made for an HD system, and then made for the Wii, and without even a scalable engine to facilitate porting it. Seriously, I'm actually curious if there is one. All I can think of that was even ported to the Wii at all (since World At War is multiplatform) is Table Tennis, and that's not like Dead Rising.

Basically, Dead Rising opened the door, and now further Wii games from the HD systems will look better because now they have a foundation to build upon (RE4 would not have looked nearly as good on the PS2 if Capcom hadn't done so many games for it already).

But what the whiners don't get is that this won't cost them their core HD games. It's already clear there is an audience for them on those systems (even PC games in the NES years stuck around). Nintendo has even made it clear they don't want core games to go away, as their E3 show indicated.