| Declan said: Hmm. It was core gamers who bought 1m+ copies of the Resi 4 port in the first year of the Wii's release. It was core gamers who bought millions of copies of Twilight Princess in its first year. I suspect it was core gamers who bought the million copies of CoD 3 and Metroid Prime 3 in that first year. There was a core audience on the Wii at the beginning. If it's not there now, it's not because of the shinier graphics on other systems - its because games like the ones mentioned became all too rare. A version of Resi 5 using the Resi 4 engine would have surely sold a lot better than the light gun versions of Resi Capcom decided to follow up Resi 4 with. How much would CoD 4 have sold had it been released and advertised at the same time as the other versions (rather than discretely two years later, still managing to sell over a million)? What effect would the release of such titles have had (as well as a Starfox and F-Zero maybe) on keeping that core audience playing on the Wii and attracting more core gamers to it? We'll never know, but to say that Wii failed to attract a core audience because of a lack of HD glosses over the fact that core games did well in the early days of the Wii - I think it was their relative novelty that did for the core audience in the end. |
a RS5 game running on RE4 engine would suck and be a waste of money. Most people who wanted that game has a console that could run it, and the little bit of people who would actually play a Wii version of that game wouldnt be playing RE5 they would be playing RE4 with a RE5 skin. The online would have sucked, the AI would have been abysmal. Now an ORIGINAL RE game running on RE4 engine would have been great the multiplat owners would have bought it for being an original title. I do kinda agree that no one would put any effort and thats why there is no core group on Wii now or a lttile bit. But IMHO i think some people are overestimating the audience on Wii. a good majority of core gamers are multiplat owners and no matter what the Wii has that stigma that its much wearker than the HDs so they wouldnt buy the Wii version of a game most of the time anyway. Oh sure 1mil copies of COD is good for WIi but compare that to 360 its kind of sad, especially considering that there are more Wii's that 360s
