I dare Capcom to port Street Fighter 4 or bring a new third person shooter from one of their top dev teams to Wii and then talk about X-factor blah blah blah...
The games Kawata-san listed (as others have said) are niche titles. Mad World would have flopped even on the PS2, all of Clover's titles seem to. No More Heroes sold better than any other Grasshopper title ever. And HoTD: Overkill is a rail shooter FFS! Why are all of these devs so keen on making rail shooters all of the sudden? They will never sell as good as a good FPS or TPS.
Resi and CoD sell on brand alone. People who know nothing about games will buy them because they have heard of them.
People are pretty quick to discount the sales of Red Steel as being due to it being a launch title. Personally, I think quality titles in genres popular on the other consoles with great IR/motion controls will sell.
Where are all the FPS besides The Conduit and W@W? Where are the third person shooters? Scarface was good but I think the profanity might have been a turn-off.
Where are the racers like burnout that don't have the player piloting a robot bug? Excite Truck was pretty successful and although I like Excitebots, I have to admit that the concept could be a turn-off to the mainstream. So far, every casual gamer I have shown it to is turned off, even though they liked Excite Truck. Games with wacky Japanese concepts (see Warioware) sometimes don't translate that well to people who aren't gamers into Japanese games, anime, and the like...
Capcom's support of the Wii has been pretty shameless. Zack & Wiki (another game with a wacky Japanese theme that didn't translate) is their only original game for Wii this gen that I can think of. The Umbrella Chonicles and Darkside Chronicles I guess you could say are original, even though they piggyback on earlier games in the series. But making them rail shooters seems like a giant cop-out. I loved RE4 Wii of course but how hard was that to make? Okami was good as well although I prefer the original PS2 version. Finally, Dead Rising was pure awful. I want to know how much of this schlock went to fund Bionic Commando or Lost Planet 2?
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