Has the Wii become one of the biggest disappointments in gaming?

[Ail]

RolStoppable said:

Ail said:

RolStoppable said:

Call of Duty 2 on the 360 was identical (in terms of content) to the PC version. The sixth generation consoles got a different Call of Duty 2. Just to let you know, not that it matters much.

But since you are bringing the performance of first party published games into this argument (Gears of War, Halo 3, Resistance), it opens another door. If I accept your argument that third parties decided to put their shooter games on other systems solely based on software sales numbers with no existence of an anti-Wii agenda, then why are there no quality third party games that tried to capitalize on the success of games like The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Super Mario Galaxy?

I guess you could argue that the video game industry simply isn't interested in developing anything besides shooters, generally M-rated content, racing and sports games anymore. Then again, this might be the result of the anti-Wii agenda and nothing else selling well on the HD consoles.

The same reason there's no third party game that tries to compete with Grand Turismo ( Forza is first party) or Grand Theft Auto ( I guess you could say Saints Row does that but it's a poor immitation)  on HD consoles.

Those games are so good and so polished that it is very hard to put anything on the market that stands a chance in the same categorie...

So in other words, every (sub)genre that is dominated by a big IP will lead third party developers to refrain from making a similar game.

Since Halo was and is big, it explains why we didn't see many, if any, FPS games this generation. Since Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest are big JRPGs since two decades, no other JRPGs are being made. Right, I am beginning to see the point you are trying to make.

I asked you twice to provide proof for your initial claim that THQ and Ubisoft are in bad shape because of the Wii. You keep posting in this thread, so it isn't a lack of time that prevents you from providing proof. So either there is no such proof or you simply prefer to make yourself look like an idiot by writing posts such as the above. Which is it?

Halo is big but cheap to make...

Same with CoD ( expensive part about CoD is the 150 million$ + marketing campaign)

Most JRPG are cheap to make ( Nipon Ichi doesn't develop 100 million $ games).

Only exception is FF and it's only expensive because of the cut scenes...

 

Now look at Zelda, Mario, Grand Turismo and GTA. Those are all games that took many years of development, and received a huge polish ( if it's not ready it doesn't ship). Quite frankly those are the exceptions in the current console development...

Heck third parties have not even tried to publish Zelda or Mario clones on HD consoles so it has nothing to do with the console itself..

 

I provided all the facts you ask, keep ignoring. THQ and Ubisoft are the two publishers with the biggest share of their sales in the Wii and as the Wii falls so are they.........