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

[Khuutra]

Pyro as Bill said:

Khuutra said:

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 or 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?

What in the shit?

YES.

Some would argue that the greatest shooters of all time could be played with nothing but your keyboard - the eponymous example is probably DooM. Marathon was a PC shooter series. First person shooters are a PC tradition, nont an arcade tradition. Perspective limits accessibility and the tech for good FPSes was never standardized in arcades. It's a PC tradition.

Yes, selling a 2D platformer on the 360/PS3 with numbers comparable to NSMBWii is impossible. Just like selling a shooter on the Wii with numbers comparable to Halo is impossible. The audiences are too split.