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superchunk on 15 January 2010
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LordTheNightKnight said:
"How can we be mad at that?"

Putting what the customers want below their own need to pretend they are James Cameron? I can sure as hell be mad. They are denying the Wii awesome games based on this asinine idea.

"While Nintendo learns that to really dominate they must be within a reasonable level of technology to their competitors."

No, that's a myth concocted to excuse the developers not supporting Nintendo. They wouldn't have supported the Wii if it was HD, and just found any other excuse.

1. True, they should think of the gamers themselves, but, to their credit they are. They think that gamers will also want to 'best' game they can get and to them that includes the pushing of technologies barrier. Think about it, the game industry has always pushed PC technology forward. Well, that includes consoles when they have drastic differences in capabilities.

Where I thought they would migrate to biggest install base, they instead focused on biggest playground and since the HD's combined market has always been equal or larger than Wii's, it makes sense to keep to what they know.

2. I don't agree at all on this and I think the PS2/Wii development proves my point. It is easier to build a ground up Wii game and port it down to the PS2 that it is to create a HD based PS360 game and port it down to Wii. Otherwise they wouldn't have worked this way over all of these years. Let's face it, Wii is closer to a PS2 than it is to a PS360. It's SD with a sub 1ghz single core processor, very similar to PS2. That's a big difference to the multi ghz, multi-core processors found in ps360 systems.

Devs originally really like the Wii and its controller scheme and they ALL raved about it. However, they all agreed that the power was too limiting to do what they *wanted* to do and the new users Wii brought in have no interest in playing a game like FPS or Assassin's Creed. They like MK and NSMBWii or Let's Dance, etc.

While it can't be said the Wii wasn't a MASSIVE success, you can say it had limited potential that matched its limited power which caused limited 3rd party support. Even though Nintendo games are far superior to the greater majority of all 3rd party products, that simply isn't enough to create the next NES, PS1, or PS2.