*Sound Of Rain said:
THQ said that they have a 3-5 year plan for uDraw and will be releasing new games for it every 3 months or so for the next 3-5 years. Nintendo and other 3rd Party's are currently considering making games for uDraw. As of now though THQ has only announced 1 other uDraw game that is in development...its a Spongebob game that will be released on the 3DS and use its 3D features, the 360 and this version will use Kinect, and a Wii version that will use uDraw. So besides a multiplatform Spongebob game...sadly not yet. |
Holy crap! That makes perfect sense. I couldn't figure out how THQ could support UDraw because it's unlikely people will ever buy more than one or two extra games for it, making it highly unprofittable to continue making games, unless they are really cheaply made or..... They are all 3DS ports! That's brilliant actually. With UDraw they can port every single 3DS game they make to the Wii and get some incremental sales with little extra cost. So it's not truly UDraw support, it's about making a secondary market for 3DS games.
3DS graphics are comparible to Wii's so it makes perfect sense, and the UDraw tablet even has basic motion detection like 3DS (thanks to the Wiimote), so it's ideal for 3DS ports. Of course there won't be any 3D on Wii, but if you don't own a 3DS, you can still play some of their games.
While I considered 3rd party support extremely unlikely, as a dumping grounds for 3DS games, it could surely happen, and know what? I won't complain if Wii via UDraw (or non-Udraw) gets some Snake, RE, SFIV, etc portage love.
