The Wii HAD to take the bullet, for all our sakes.

[68soul]

What i still don't understand is why a videogame industry doin' all its "blockbusters" games for the PS2 for nearly six years has suddenly a problem with games in SD, and nearly the same kind of budget...

The PS2 was a very limited console (not that much power, and hard to program), and still, more than 130 millions people were glad to play it, many of its games are considered all-time classics and collected incredible reviews, and nobody in the industry had a word to say against it as a market leader... or nearly so...

Theres a "double standard" here i still don't get, and if PS2 fans still have found memories of all their favourite PS2 games, why don't they believe a console like Wii, with enough power to give some of the best graphics possible in SD, is a great system with a lot of potential?

And about the game dev's: we all saw they needed time to get used to the new tech of the wiimote... if Wii was also HD, the development time and the games budget would have exploded, and publishers would have been too afraid to take ANY risk, or test ANY new idea...

I mean c'mon: it's already the case with a "SD Wii", offering a very affordable dev' budget !!!

Instead, many people in the industry prefer to make games 2 or 3 times more exepensive, hoping they will all be million sellers to get the same kind of profits as previous gen...

It doesn't make sense, as only 60 X360 games, 30 PS3 games and maybe 40 or 50 other multiplatform games have done so this gen: this is suicidal, and this doesn't leave any room for "niche games" and "cult classics" with a limited appeal to the mainstream markets, both "hardcore" or "casual"...

And if a game fails, EA, Activision, Ubisoft, Capcom, Konami or Squarenix may balance the loss with the the profits of other games in their catalog: but what about all the smaller teams out there?

They just can't afford it... but still don't view Wii as a viable alternative, so what can we do?