Bitterness in the Wii fandom?

[dunno001]

Well, I can tell you why I'm getting more bitter toward the 3rd party companies. Some of them claim to want to support the Wii, but their actions don't show it. Several companies give us (Wii owners) a game with a big name title (Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, etc), but spin it so far from the actual game's fanbase that it's really not the same game genre anymore. So fans of that series aren't going to buy it, because it's not what we want from that name. And you (game companies) just launch it out there, expecting it to sell equivilant to the main line games. Sorry, but you've alienated your core base for the game. It's not going to sell, and when it doesn't hit the absurd numbers you want, you whine about not being able to sell on the Wii.

You aren't willing to spend on Wii games. You spend, what, $5 million making a budget Wii game, be it a bunch of mini games or a spinoff of something else. You then spend $30 million to make some other HD game, properly using the title of the Wii spinoff in the genre its fans know about already. Now both games are ready. Advertising costs $5 million per game. This would double the cost of the Wii game- you won't do that. But you've sunk so much into the HD game cost that what's another $5m to try to get more sales? So you've sent the Wii game out to die. You then bitch about its low sales when you didn't do anything to spread the word of the game like you did the HD version. We can't buy a game we don't know exists.

You talk trash about how the Wii can't do this and that. Many of us got the Wii because it's something different. We don't necessarily need OMG-HD graphics. We want a fun game. But because you're so hung up on the technical stuff, you've forgotten some of what makes games fun. And that's why we play games- for fun. But no, instead of trying to find out what we find fun, you make another low-budget game that's just not fun. So we don't buy it, giving you another game to whine about low sales on.

Seriously, guys, put some effort into your Wii games. You've dug the hole yourselves, so now if you want to sell well on the Wii, you're going to have to do something. Give us what we want- a quality fun game that invokes a different feeling, and we'll buy it. But no, you're too busy whining about poor sales. And why is it you don't hear whining about HD failures? Easy- the company with the failure frequently fades away, or just goes bankrupt. But the Wii's failure cost so little in comparison, that it didn't wreck your company. Never mind the fact that the "failure" may be subsidizing your HD projects.

We're not really a hard bunch to figure out. What we are, is a somewhat different market. Yes, some of the old ideas will still work. But you need to not dumb them down. And for the rest of us, you'll actually need to do some research. You won't do that, though, because it would entail another investment in the Wii, even though the sales potential is just as great as HD for a lower cost. And until you learn what we want, we don't want to hear your whining. We know what the problem is, and it's not us, like you want to believe. It's you.