Is FPS all that's left from the Arcade on PS3/360?

[Pyro as Bill]

Khuutra said:

Pyro as Bill said:

I've played the Wii version of EDF and it's arcadey, it's not an arcade game though. It still requires levelling up and building characters (kind of assuming).

I know they are there. But why are they downloadables and not the holiday blockbuster outside of shooters?

PS3/360 has the shooter without a doubt, possibly killing it because that's all it seems to have. Could a 2d platformer not sell 20M on PS3/360?

You're wrong about Earth Defense Force and you're wrong about Halo and CoD and you're wrong about 2-D platformers on the HD consoles.

1. EDF is an arcade game, regardless of what the blade game on the Wii is.

2. Halo and Call of Duty are PC games built on PC traditions (Marathon and CoD) in an effort to bring PC games to the console market. It's working.

3. The 2-D platforming audience is on the Wii. They're not going to be on a system where the games don't exist.

That's all.

Halo and Cod are built on arcade game tradition not computer tradition. Did FPS on computers even exist before the mouse became popular?

So as of last November 2d fans all bought a Wii? No 5-20M audience for 2d platformers on 360/PS3? Impossible task?