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o_O.Q on 21 July 2011
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RolStoppable said:
o_O.Q said:

"a sequel to a game they loved?"

your making the assuption that all gamecube owners transitioned to wii

but regardless i could easily make the comparison to for example the 3d mario game for gc super mario sunshine which used standard controls obviously meanwhile the 3d mario game for the wii mario galaxy uses the motion controls instead 

what happened is that the devs obviously looked at the new hardware and decided to go a different route with the new game but unlike legends, galaxy was accepted as a great game... but what i've been saying is that i still commend the devs for trying to be original

furthermore a point we haven't touched on at all is the fact that soul calibur had multiple entries last gen with little change between each ( this was marked as a negative against 4 also ) the wii hardware would not have allowed for the devs to show a notable improvement in the game as was shown on the HD consoles and i believe this to be another reason the devs made the choice they did

And why would that be a flawed assumption? After all, the sales of Wii games that were sequels to Gamecube games by and large went up, so it isn't far fetched to assume that a majority of GC owners (not literally all of them) bought a Wii.

Soul Calibur IV would have not faced any direct competition on the Wii, so being just more of the same wouldn't have hurt it. Speaking of sales, did Soul Calibur IV underperform on the HD consoles or was the negative talk about it not much more than hot air? Looking at the numbers here on VGC, SC IV did just fine, so your argument once again doesn't seem to hold water.

"did Soul Calibur IV underperform on the HD consoles" never said so but unlike a wii version would have, it showed a step forward from soul calibur 2 maybe that contributed to its success

"Soul Calibur IV would have not faced any direct competition on the Wii" true btw my argument was never that it would have failed simply that to say that soul calibur legends shows developer negligence is uncalled for.... why if the HD versions follow the original formula and arguably do it better should the wii version do the same when the hardware is capable of taking the series in a new direction?