Capcom: Japanese devs 'delighted' with Sony's wands; Expect Wii Ports

[scottie]

sc94597 said:

scottie said:

sc94597 said:
This is bad news. Why would anybody want direct ports of a game with no extra content? Seriously what is with this habit of getting late ports for PS3 from 360 and now Wii, Wii getting ports from last generation consoles, and 360 getting ports from PC. Developers, especially this generation are porting WAY too much and imo not making original, unique games. The only places you don't see this are PC and Handhelds. This is because ports on these platforms rarely sell.

DS

Super mario 64: DS 7.73 million

FFIII - 2.3 million

The Sims 2 - 1.47 million

DQIV 1.32 mill

DQV 1.3 mill

FFIV - 1 mill

 

PSP - the best and 3rd best selling games are both ports

Four of those are remakes of games 15-20yrs old. Even then they are big franchises. They sold much less than the originals  The other two are pretty much the exceptions because they are big series.

 

Edit The PSP games are NOT direct ports despite what some may say. They are pretty much entirely different games if you look at the value aspect(playing locally with friends versus subscriptioned online), and they have extra content.

They're still ports, and you said that ports on portables don't sell. If you were only talking about ports of current of 6th gen games then yes, you're right

 

@ edit - Most ports have extra features

 

@ soriku - I'm not sure what you mean? I don't mind at all if companies bring out ports - in the end its the consumer that decides whether porting games is profitable or not, and the role of game companies is to keep the consumers happy.