Headset For Call Of Duty: Black Ops Wii

[LordTheNightKnight]

Viper1 said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

Viper1 said:

Of course it would be best to have both.  But when strained with the circumstance of only have alloted time to include 1 and having a game is already suited towards only one you can't really have both. (1)

 

Let me ask it this way.  If local multiplayer was the biger draw, why would almost ALL Wii FPS's have an online component but not a local componenet?(2)  Do you think they all just assumed it be the bigger draw of the 2 features?

Consider the pros and cons:

With online you get much higher player counts and there 's always players to play against.  With local splitscreen, you are limited to 4 players max (many games allow only 2), you need many controllers, you have to schedule time to play and you reduce system performance.  Online has become more appealing as broadband accessibility has increased and free time for aging gamers has reduced. 

1. Did you miss the several times where I stated if tech reasons keep it out of this version yet again, I'll accept it?

2. Wii FPS have also not broken the 2 million mark. Furthermore, only CoD and Red Steel have broken the 1 million mark. One has local only, and two of the the others have online only (with limited local multiplayer). All this proves is that FPS on the Wii have yet to break through.

I really don't like that "we chose to make this as proof alone the games sell". It should be "X game sold well and Y didn't, so we chose to make a game like X". The former has been the mindset of most developers, and that's been a huge reasons just costs have gone up, not sales.

Wait a minute.  You told me not to use sales and trends to verify my claims and then you go and use sales and trends. (1)

Furrher more, I already told you to look at FPS's as a whole.  The whole genre has moved toward online multiplayer given it offers a far more dynamic expereince with more players and play anytime capabilties.(2)  The Wii is no different in that regard.(2)  You are not going to sell a FPS on the grounds of local multiplayer better than you will on the grounds of online multiplayer. (4)

1. You didn't read my post.

"Plus looking at the sales and trends, the bestselling FPS/TPS (Gears is so much like an FPS in most cases), the bestsellers have split screen as well. So to assume that oline is a bigger point is still assuming correlation=causation."

That doesn't mean "don't use those". That just means "they are not proof alone". But you brought up something even less. You brought up games made as proof Wii gamers prefered this, which doesn't even take into account why they sell. So I brought up the sales as a counterpoint.

2. Please don't use some marketing department line. I want something like "we actually talked to customers and they said online multiplayer was preferable to local", not "this potentically can offer more, regardless of whether the customers have told us they want that more".

3. That just means that the potential is there, not the customer preference.

4. That is not proof. You can't just use potential as proof that is what the customers want. You have to verify that is what they want. The problem I have with your "proof" is that it's the same crap that made the industry run to HD. "It offers more detail, therefore that proves it will sell more than less detail". It's also been the justification for denying games for the Wii. "It can't do this superficial thing we want in our game, therefore the customers don't want it".

Prove that the customers WANT this thing, not that it CAN do this thing. Even if it's just in relation to the Wii.

And that isn't just for me. If you just assume customers want the potential, but don't actually ask them if they want the potential over something else, then you are wasting the game and wasting money on an assumption.

I admit this is just me, but I don't want to play with total strangers. I want to play with my family and my friends. Online cannot do that, so to even think it's inherently better is wrong. What's pissing me off is insisting you know my, and many others', tastes because of what a product can do, not whether we want what the product can do.

Online plus split screen is of course best, as it serves both customers, but to neglect one on the grounds of some notion of potential being an automatic selling point, is just ridiculous.