Associated Content: Wii and the 3rd party curse

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oniyide said:

I have a serious ?  what AAA games do the Wii owners want?? Have some ever considered that those AAA games you see on HDs simply cannot be done on the WII and if it was it wouldnt be close to the quality of the original game. (Dead Rising and Force unleashed come to mind)  I mean the WII is about as powerful as an original XBOX thats not close to the HDs in term of power so devs are limited on what they can do on it and thats not even considering they have to learn that Wiimote which it in itself is also somewhat limited in the accuracy dept (REd Steel 1) comes to mind

I think that Wii owners want the same AAA content as the HD twins.  Granted things will never look the same and your point about not every game being able to be done on the Wii is valid.  The online wouldn't be the same either.  With those limitations in mind, you look at a game like Modern Warfare: Reflex edition and what it was able to accomplish on the Wii and you start wondering why most AAA games couldn't be ported.  I mean I've beaten that game on 360 and the Wii and the experience and content was all there.  I prefer pointer controls so I probably even had a little more fun with the Wii version.  The caveats were there with the online and the graphics obviously but the core experience was very much in tact.

We see a game like Metroid Prime 3 and wonder why no other developer can get similar performance in both control, gameplay, and graphics.  I thought Red Steel 2 was a great game and I bought it day 1.  Too bad it had limited advertising and frankly I think most people wrote it off because of the first game.

Even looking back at the last generation of consoles, seeing the complex games they put onto them makes you wonder why they couldn't do the same for the Wii.  It's not going to happen at this point and I think Wii owners should stop belly aching about it (I finally did), but it doesn't make my points any less valid.