| Dodece said: This is where the Wii library is going. The train left months ago, and the ticket told you exactly where you were going. Now you have the audacity to act surprised by the destination. That is a surreal amount of brain damage. This is why dedicated PS3/360 fans look at you like your nuts. Shake their heads when you get excited about the library, or even dare to say it is really good. Which you shouldn't, and it isn't. That said Konami is responding to the voice of the consumer. The consumer wants mini games with little depth. Graphics are not very relevant. The more simplistic the controls the better, and by all means keep the price down if at all possible. The consumer really isn't looking for a real game. Then make sure you spend as little as possible developing it Wii owners do not buy a lot of games after all. You guys basically have no clue what you want. You scream about third party delivery then extol the virtues of Wii fit, Wii play, Wii sports, and soon enough Wii music. Then you act puzzled by where companies like Konami are coming from. They are trying to make money, and your fellow players are not hardcore hell they aren't even core. Your playing with many people that when it comes to gaming are mildly retarded. I will sum up my post in one simple yet eloquent line. KNOW YOUR ROLE, AND SHUT YOUR MOUTH. |
Let me get this straight, despite the fact that the highest selling games on the console are LoZ, MP3, Red Steel, Guitar Hero 3, Mario Galaxy, Resident Evil 4 and soon to be SSBB, your claim is that Wii gamers long for games which are shoddy arcade ports with embarrassingly bad graphics?
You might as well just suggest that Uwe Boll makes films that movie-goers want to see because there's a cult following for certain bad movies.
No, Konami has demonstrated three times now that they have ZERO farking CLUE what Wii owners want because they've continuously failed to sell games to them, something 3rd parties like Capcom, Sega and Ubisoft don't seem to have a problem with.
And GIVEN that these other 3rd parties don't have a problem with it, I'm going to have to go ahead and point out the OBVIOUS fact that this means the problem is very much on Konami's end.
If Konami is only going to make ass for games, they deserve ass for sales.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
