The Wii should have had a flood of PS2 ports, but of the great ones.

[LordTheNightKnight]

With Goldeneye coming out, I'm reminded at parts of games like Black and Timesplitters. Then I think how awesome those would play om the Wii. Then I realize developers refuse to even consider putting that on the Wii, as though it would somehow taint a game by running on a system still more powerful than the source system anyway.

This brings us to the thread topic. For quite a while, I saw whining about the Wii getting flooded with PS2 ports, and all I saw was this supposed flood kind of lacking in the big PS2 games.

Where are the Metal Gear ports (part of the annoyance of the support for the 3DS is that there is no reason the Wii couldn't also do MGS3 other than developer stubbornness)? Where are the Final Fantasy ports? Where are the GTA ports?

Now keep in mind that a multiplatform game is not a port. So any game released for them at the same time does not count here. I mean it had to have been made for the PS2, and then put on the Wii.

With that in mind, what was the biggest hit PS2 game ported to the Wii? Seriously, I don't know. I know Okami is one of the best games, but that wasn't a hit. We might count RE4, since that includes the PS2 version content.

But in that case, a hit game on the PS2 and GC was also a hit on the Wii, and third developers somehow didn't see that as a reason to put more ACTUAL hit games from the PS2, or even the Xbox, on the Wii.

That doesn't even have the spec excuse of the HD systems. Heck, even the PSP games don't have the spec excuse. And the controller isn't one, since the Wii obvously has other control options (which RE4 Wii Edition also took advantage of).

So my conclusion is that the Wii did not get a flood of last gen ports, since a genuine flood would require some of the major third party games from last gen, not just a couple of those.

NOTE: You could say this topic is a little late, but considering third parties had all the time they needed to get a huge Wii library in little time, and still didn't take it, I'm a little entitled to call in them for not taking advantage of such a no-brainer notion.